Breastfeeding and Sexuality (eBook)

Mara Mabilia teaches at the Intercultural Studies Master's Programme as well as Cultural Anthropology with a sub-field in Cooperation and Development at the Faculty of Education, both at University of Padua. She also lectures in other Postgraduate programmes (University of Brescia and University of Rome). She prepares doctors who serve as volunteers in Africa at C.U.A.M.M. Doctors with Africa - International College for Health Cooperation in Developing Countries, Padua.

Acknowledgements
Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cigongwe


Towards the village

Meeting with the village

Fieldwork

The route of the research


Chapter 2. The Gogo Women


The living space

The house

Nyumba: physical-residential unit, social-residential unit

The Gogo woman


Chapter 3. Breast Feeding


Breast feeding between nature and culture

The modalities of breast feeding

Breast milk

‘Bad milk’ in only one breast


Chapter 4. The ‘Good Mother’, the ‘Bad Mother’: Diarrhoea as a Sign of Social Disorder


Inside the problem

Motherhood and mothering

The health of the newborn: a challenge to survival

Post-partum taboos


Chapter 5. Maternal Milk: Indicator of ‘Good Mother’


Breast feeding: a bridge between the different levels of the Gogo social system

The woman: mother and nurturer

A brief return to the village


Bibliography
Index