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Towards an anthropology of care: Breastfeeding as a care work

Author(s) -

Andja Srdic-Srebro

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

glasnik etnografskog instituta

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2334-8259

pISSN - 0350-0861

DOI - 10.2298/gei1701223s

Subject(s) - breastfeeding , vulnerability (computing) , phenomenon , human sexuality , sociology , care work , work (physics) , nursing , medicine , gender studies , epistemology , pediatrics , philosophy , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , computer security

This paper discusses different aspects of anthropological research on breastfeeding, corporeality and ethics of care. The main focus is on the problem of relating care studies to the breastfeeding phenomenon and the conceptualisation of woman’s body, sexuality and motherhood. The paper suggests the need for a critical approach to the problems of caregiver domination and care receiver vulnerability in the “chain-of-care”, as well as the need for an anthropological contextualisation of relationships between care professionals’ and women’s experience

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