Mothering at the Intersection of Marginality: Exploring Breastfeeding Beliefs and Practices Among Women From Nova Scotia, Canada Who Identify as Overweight, Low Income, and Food Insecure
| Autor: | S. Meaghan Sim, Megan Aston, Sara F. L. Kirk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Nova scotia
Low income Discourse analysis Breastfeeding Mothers Overweight Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Poverty 2. Zero hunger Food security 030504 nursing Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Obesity Breast Feeding Nova Scotia Normative Female medicine.symptom 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Qualitative Health Research. 30:1737-1748 |
| ISSN: | 1552-7557 1049-7323 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1049732320921830 |
| Popis: | Breastfeeding is represented to support healthy body weight and food security. However, breastfeeding may be negatively impacted by high maternal body weight and income-related food insecurity. Guided by feminist poststructural methodology, this study explored breastfeeding beliefs and practices among women from Nova Scotia, Canada, identifying as income-related food insecure and overweight. Participants who were pregnant for the first time and intending to breastfeed participated in three interviews: prenatal ( n = 8), first month postpartum ( n = 6), and 3 months postpartum ( n = 6). Employing discourse analyses, we found that participants’ experiences aligned with dominant discursive representations of these health issues, informed through normative understandings of what it means to mother. However, some participants resisted and reframed what constitutes good mothering to identify with maternal subjectivities that were context specific. The findings have implications for understanding how discourses shape maternal identities and their effects for breastfeeding and other health-related practices. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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