Maternal sexuality and breastfeeding
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Article Title | Maternal sexuality and breastfeeding |
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ERA Journal ID | 13789 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Bartlett, Alison |
Journal Title | Sex Education |
Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning | |
Journal Citation | 5 (1), pp. 67-77 |
Number of Pages | 11 |
Year | 2005 |
Place of Publication | Milton Park, U.K. |
ISSN | 1468-1811 |
1472-0825 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/146818142000301894 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a713949710&fulltext=713240928 |
Abstract | [Abstract]: In this paper I consider the ways in which lactation has been discussed as a form of maternal sexuality, and the implications this carries for our understanding of breastfeeding practices and sexuality. Drawing on knowledge constructed in the western world during the last half of the twentieth century, the paper identifies a shift between the radical ideologies of the 1960s and 1970s and the newer moral conservatism of the 1990s. The emergence of lactation porn and erotica in the 1990s has meant that the sexuality of breastfeeding has been contained in a subculture outside of dominant cultural values, and so maternal sexuality has become a muted discourse, sometimes bordering on the immoral and illegal. My project in this paper, however, is to argue that breastfeeding pleasure is physiologically 'normal' and should be productively rather than illicitly incorporated into the meanings we make of sexuality and of breastfeeding. |
Keywords | maternal sexuality, breastfeeding, lactation, |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Humanities and Communication |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9xqw4/maternal-sexuality-and-breastfeeding
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