Centre for Midwifery, Maternal & Perinatal
Health,
School of Health &
Social Care, Bournemouth University
Open
Research Seminar
‘Women in African villages do it’: Some paradoxes of ‘natural’
breastfeeding
Charlotte
Faircloth
PhD student in Social
Anthropology
University of
Cambridge
Wednesday 5th March, 2008
12-12.50, Room
RLH 201, Bournemouth University
You are cordially invited to the
above lunch time seminar which is one
of a regular series (1st Wednesday of
the month) of research seminars open to all. Please feel free
to bring your lunch. Tea and coffee will be
provided.
Abstract
Based on
research in London and
Paris with mothers from local La Leche League groups (the foremost
international breastfeeding support organisation) this paper explores the
narratives of particular women who choose to breastfeed ‘to full term’ (also
known as ‘extended breastfeeding’). Where full term breastfeeding goes against
social convention, yet occurs in a climate of ‘intensive motherhood’ (Hays,
1996) the paper pays close attention to the strategies of rationalisation
employed by these alternative mothers, and the identity work they undertake.
Recourse to ‘natural’ styles of care (in both the animal kingdom and amongst
‘primitive peoples’) is problematised by an anthropological exploration of local
ideas of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’.
Biography
Charlotte Faircloth is a PhD
student in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She has worked as an author and consultant
for UNICEF, the NCT and Save the Children. She is also a member of the IOI
Parents’ Forum
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