Embodied Acts of Resistance: Portraits of Urban Breastfeeding Mothers
Description:
This dissertation examines how breastfeeding mothers develop distinct geographies due to the stigma, symbolic and structural violence they encounter while breastfeeding if different spaces. I utilize multiple in-depth semi-structured interviews, participant observation and photo elicitation to develop portraits of four urban mothers. My findings highlight the complexity of motherhood and demonstrate how distinct socio-spatial power dynamics situate and contextualize the experiences of breastfee…
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Date:
August 2020
Creator:
Veselka-Bush, Alexandra V.
Partner:
UNT Libraries