Summary of Gary Ezzo’s On Becoming Babywise by Milkyway Media

Summary of Gary Ezzo’s On Becoming Babywise by Milkyway Media
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Study Aids
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On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep (2012)is a guide for parents of babies up to one year old by Gary Ezzo and Robert Bucknam. The guide was first published in 1993 and has since gone through many editions… Purchase this in-depth summary to learn more.

Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding
Author: Patricia Stuart-Macadam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1351530739

Breastfeeding is a biocultural phenomenon: not only is it a biological process, but it is also a culturally determined behavior. As such, it has important implications for understanding the past, present, and future condition of our species. In general, scholars have emphasized either the biological or the cultural aspects of breastfeeding, but not both. As biological anthropologists the editors of this volume feel that an evolutionary approach combining both aspects is essential. One of the goals of their book is to incorporate data from diverse fields to present a more holistic view of breastfeeding, through the inclusion of research from a number of different disciplines, including biological and social/cultural anthropology, nutrition, and medicine. The resulting book, presenting the complexity of the issues surrounding very basic decisions about infant nutrition, will fill a void in the existing literature on breastfeeding.

Maternal Thinking

Maternal Thinking
Author: Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781550145168

The year 2009 marks twenty years since the publication of Sara Ruddick's monumental text Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, a book that is regarded, along with Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, as the most significant work in maternal scholarship and the new field of Motherhood Studies. What madeMaternal Thinking so life-changing and ground-breaking was that it foregrounded what all mothers know: motherwork is inherently and profoundly an intellectual activity and theorized the obvious: Mothers think. This volume, published to commemorate and celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication ofMaternal Thinking, explores the impact and influence this book has had on maternal scholarship and revisits what motherhood scholars regard as the pivotal insights of Ruddick's text: motherwork is a practice that gives rise to and is informed by "maternal thinking"; mothering, as a practice, is composed of and characterized by particular characteristics; this work is not defined by or reducible to gender; and maternal thinking makes possible a politics a peace. The volume includes 17 contributors from disciplines as diverse as anthropology, sociology, literature, philosophy, education, women's studies and psychology and features a conversation with and an epilogue by Sara Ruddick.

Milk, Money, and Madness

Milk, Money, and Madness
Author: Naomi Baumslag
Publisher: J F Bergin & Garvey
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Breast feeding
ISBN: 9780897894081

Breastfeeding vs. formula: could the choice we make put our children at risk?

At the Breast

At the Breast
Author: Linda Blum
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2000-06-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780807021415

In our ironic, "postfeminist" age few experiences inspire the kind of passions that breastfeeding does. For advocates, breastfeeding is both the only way to supply babies with proper nutrition and the "bond" that cements the mother/child relationship. Mother's milk remains "natural" in a world of genetically modified produce and corporate health care. But is it a realistic option for all women? And can a well-intentioned insistence on the necessity of breastfeeding become just another way to cast some women as bad mothers? Linda M. Blum is author of Between Feminism and Labor: The Significance of the Comparable Worth Movement. She teaches sociology and women's studies at the University of New Hampshire, and wrote this book while a Bunting Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Breastwork

Breastwork
Author: Alison Bartlett
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2005
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780868409696

Breastwork delivers an original and personal approach to a near-universal practice and doesn't shy from controversy or controversial topics, such as sexual desire and breastfeeding. It features a broad range of illustrations from Renaissance paintings of mother and child (Madonna del Latte) to Jerry Hall breastfeeding on the cover of Vanity Fair and Kate Langbroek breastfeeding on The Panel to a banned New Zealand health poster of a man breastfeeding at work.

Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health

Exploring the Dirty Side of Women's Health
Author: Mavis Kirkham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134176783

In this book, a team of international contributors examine bodies, leakage and boundaries, illuminating the contradictions and dilemmas in women’s healthcare. Using the concept of pollution, this book highlights how women and health issues are categorised, and health workers and women are confined to roles and places defined as socially appropriate. The book explores in-depth current and historical practices, such as: childbirth and midwifery practice policies and social practices around breastfeeding gynaecological nursing, female incontinence and sexually transmitted infections miscarriages and termination of pregnancy. Addressing things out of place, from the idea of ‘dirty work’ to feeling ‘dirty’, from diagnoses that disrupt our self-image to beliefs and practices which undermine health service provision, this book uses the contradictions in our thinking around pollution and power to stimulate thinking around women’s health.

Fresh Milk

Fresh Milk
Author: Fiona Giles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1439128901

While countless breastfeeding guides crowd bookshelves, not one of them speaks to women with anything approaching bestselling author Fiona Giles's level of intimacy and vitality. In Fresh Milk, through a provocative collection of stories, memories, and personal accounts, Giles uncovers the myths and truths of the lactating breast. From the young mother grappling with the bewildering trappings of maternity wear to the woman who finds herself surprisingly aroused by new sensations, and the modern dad who learns the ins and outs of breastfeeding, the portraits in Giles's eye-opening book offer a funny, wise, and comforting resource for women -- and even their friends and partners who have had, or expect, intimate experiences with the pleasures and pain of lactation. By turns poignant and informative, sexy and witty, empathic and empowering, Fresh Milk delivers everything we wanted to know about breastfeeding that our mothers never told us.

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America

A Social History of Wet Nursing in America
Author: Janet Golden
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2001
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780814250723

From the colonial period through to the 20th century, this text examines the intersection of medical science, social theory and cultural practices as they shaped relations among wet nurses, physicians and families. It explores how Americans used wet nursing to solve infant feeding problems, shows why wet nursing became controversial as motherhood slowly became medicalized, and elaborates how the development of scientific infant feeding eliminated wet nursing by the beginning of the 20th century. Janet Golden's study contributes to our understanding of the cultural authority of medical science, the role of physicians in shaping child rearing practices, the social construction of motherhood, and the profound dilemmas of class and culture that played out in the private space of the nursery.