Breastfeeding and Sexuality : Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
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| Autore: |
Mabilia Mara
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| Titolo: |
Breastfeeding and Sexuality : Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Berghahn Books, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (154 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 649.3309678 |
| 649/.33/09678 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Breastfeeding -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe |
| Cigongwe (Tanzania) -- Social life and customs | |
| Puerperium -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe | |
| Sex role -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe | |
| Taboo -- Tanzania -- Cigongwe | |
| Women, Gogo -- Attitudes | |
| Women, Gogo -- Psychology | |
| Women, Gogo -- Sexual behavior | |
| Women, Gogo - Psychology - Tanzania - Cigongwe | |
| Women, Gogo - Sexual Behavior - Cigongwe - Tanzania | |
| Women, Gogo - Attitudes - Cigongwe - Tanzania | |
| Breastfeeding - Cigongwe - Tanzania | |
| Sex role | |
| Taboo | |
| Puerperium | |
| Behavior | |
| Feeding Behavior | |
| Parents | |
| Identification (Psychology) | |
| Psychosexual Development | |
| Culture | |
| Nutrition Processes | |
| Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena | |
| Anthropology | |
| Personality Development | |
| Psychoanalytic Theory | |
| Physiological Processes | |
| Persons | |
| Nutritional Physiological Phenomena | |
| Social Sciences | |
| Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms | |
| Defense Mechanisms | |
| Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena | |
| Nuclear Family | |
| Psychological Theory | |
| Physiological Phenomena | |
| Personality | |
| Psychology | |
| Family | |
| Psychology, Social | |
| Social Norms | |
| Sociology | |
| Psychological Phenomena | |
| Breast Feeding | |
| Mothers | |
| Gender Identity | |
| Sexual Behavior | |
| Anthropology, Cultural | |
| Medicine | |
| History & Archaeology | |
| Health & Biological Sciences | |
| Regions & Countries - Africa | |
| Pediatrics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | BREAST FEEDING AND SEXUALITY; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1. CIGONGWE; CHAPTER 2. THE GOGO WOMEN; CHAPTER 3. BREAST FEEDING; CHAPTER 4. THE 'GOOD MOTHER', THE 'BAD MOTHER': DIARRHOEA AS A SIGN OF SOCIAL DISORDER; CHAPTER 5. MATERNAL MILK: INDICATOR OF 'GOOD MOTHER'; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Whereas in western countries breastfeeding is an uncontroversial, purely personal issue, in most parts of the world mother and baby form part of a network of interpersonal relations with its own rules and expectations. In this study, the author examines the cultural and social context of breastfeeding among the Gogo women of the Cigongwe''s village in Tanzania, as part of the Paediatric Programme of Doctors with Africa, based in Padua. The focus is on mothers'' behaviour and post partum taboos as key elements in Gogo understanding of the vicissitudes of the breast feeding process. This nutrit |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Breastfeeding and Sexuality |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-607-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808290803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality