Negotiated Breastfeeding

This book offers new perspectives on the conceptualisation of breastfeeding as a shared process.

Caroline Chautems is a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She is also a lecturer at the Geneva School of Health Sciences. A social and medical anthropologist, Dr. Chautems is currently working on Swiss caesarean culture, including the emergence of new obstetrical and therapeutic practices. Her research interests focus on reproduction and parenthood, with a particular attention given to gender and bodies in regard to parenting and health policy.

Foreword by Fiona Dykes; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Holistic care in Switzerland and my ethnographic study; 2 Reinventing parenthood through breastfeeding: risk-centric society and embodied parenting; 3 Feeding to thrive; 4 Building the lactating body; 5 The communicating feed; Conclusion; Bibliography