Towards an anthropology of care

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Srdic-Srebro, A. (2017). Towards an anthropology of care: Breastfeeding as a care work, 65(1), 223-230. Retrieved from http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611701223S
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Title

Towards an anthropology of care

Subtitle

Breastfeeding as a care work

Author

Anđa, Srdic-Srebro

Journal

Glasnik Etnografskog instituta SANU

Volume
Issue

1

Start page

223

End page

230

ISSN
ISBN
DOI
URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-08611701223S

Date

2017-2020/03/24/15:50:11

Abstract

This paper discusses different aspects of anthropological research on breastfeeding, corporeality and ethics of care. The main focus is on the problem of relating care studies to the breastfeeding phenomenon and the conceptualisation of woman’s body, sexuality and motherhood. The paper suggests the need for a critical approach to the problems of caregiver domination and care receiver vulnerability in the “chain-of-care”, as well as the need for an anthropological contextualisation of relationships between care professionals’ and women’s experience.

Keywords

feminism, body, breastfeeding, care studies, care work, motherhood