BREASTFEEDING AND THE GOOD MATERNAL BODY
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 13 (3) , 308-325
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124399013003003
Abstract
Breastfeeding remains an understudied topic in research and theorizing about reproductive experience and women's bodies. This article reports on women's experiences of breastfeeding in public as revealed through in-depth interviews with 51 women. The current construction of the good maternal body requires women to carefully manage the performance of breastfeeding in specific ways and with particular attention to the dominant notion of a sexualized rather than nurturing breast. Women accommodate to, and resist, the perceived boundaries of the good maternal body through their breastfeeding behaviors.Keywords
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