Maternal bodies, breast-feeding, and consumer desire in Urban China

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-80

  Gottschang, Suzanne Zhang ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; CONSUMER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTHER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPOUSE; URBAN POPULATION;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BREAST FEEDING; CHINA; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MOTHERS; NEGOTIATING; SPOUSES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33847315119     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2007.21.1.64     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Blum, Linda 2000 At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
2. Carter, Pam 1995 Feminisms, Breasts, and Breastfeeding. New York: St. Martin's Press.
3. Evans, Harriet 1997 Women and Sexuality in China. New York: Continuum.
4. Foucault, Michel 1994 The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. New York: Random House.
5. Furth, Charlotte 1987 Concepts of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Infancy in Ch'ing Dynasty China. Journal of Asian Studies 46(February): 7-36.
6. Ginsburg, Faye, and Rayna Rapp, eds. 1995 Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Gussler, Judith, and Linda Briesemeister 1980 The Insufficient Milk Syndrome: A Biocultural Explanation. Medical Anthropology 4(2):145-174.
8. Hull, Valerie J., Shyam Thapa, and Gulardi Wiknjosastro 1989 Breastfeeding and Health Professionals: A Study in Hospitals in Indonesia. Social Science and Medicine 20(4):355-364.
9. Levine, Nancy 1989 Women's Work and Infant Feeding: A Case from Nepal. Ethnology 27(3):231-251.
10. Maher, Vanessa 1994 Introduction. In The Anthropology of Breastfeeding: Natural Law or Social Construct. V. Maher, ed. Pp. 1-34. Oxford: Berg.
11. Martin, Emily 1988 The Woman in the Body. Boston: Beacon Press
12. Muñoz, L. M., and E. Ulate 1991 Breastfeeding Patterns of Urban to Middle Income Women in Costa Rica. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 25(11):59-67.
13. Pasternak, B., and C. Wang 1985 Breastfeeding Decline in Urban China: An Exploratory Study. Human Ecology 13(4):433-466.
14. Popkin, B., R. Bilsborrow, J. Akin, and M. Yamamato 1983 Breastfeeding Determinants in Low Income Countries. Medical Anthropology 7(1):1-31.
15. Riley, Nancy 1996 Holding Up Half the Economy. China Business Review 23(1):8-17.
16. Shanghai Jiaoyu Dianshi Tai (Shanghai Educational Television) 1994 Muru Weiyang (Breast-feeding). Video, 45 min. Shanghai.
17. Tong, Louis 1994 The "Consumer Society" Comes to China. Business Korea 12(6):38-41.
18. Turner, Terence 1994 Bodies and Anti-Bodies: Flesh and Fetish in Contemporary Social Theory. In Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self. Thomas Csordas, ed. Pp. 27-47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
19. United Nations 1996 Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Newsletter 5:1.
20. Van Esterik, Penny 1989 Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
21. Van Esterik, Penny 2002 Contemporary Trends in Infant Feeding Research. Annual Review of Anthropology 31(October):257-278.
22. Yuan, Xiaohong 1997 Baby-Friendly Action in China: Protection, Promotion, and Support of Breastfeeding. Paper presented at the Asian Conference of Pediatricians, Hong Kong, June 15-17.