Nighttime Breastfeeding

Cecília Tomori is Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health. She is the co-author of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding and is the co-editor of two additional books, Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches (Routledge 2018), and The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction (2022).

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Preface and Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. Embodied Cultural Dilemmas: An Anthropological Approach to the Study of Nighttime Breastfeeding and Sleep

Chapter 2. Struggles Over Authoritative Knowledge and “Choice” in Breastfeeding and Infant Sleep in the U.S.

Chapter 3. Making Breastfeeding Parents in Childbirth Education Courses

Chapter 4. Dispatches from the Moral Minefield of Breastfeeding

Chapter 5. Breastfeeding as Men’s “Kin Work”

Chapter 6. Breastfeeding Babies in the Nest: Producing Children, Kinship, and Moral Imagination in the House

Chapter 7. Time to Sleep: Nighttime Breastfeeding and Capitalist Temporal Regimes



Conclusion



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