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   Milk and management: breastfeeding as a project

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Miriam H.A. Waltz --- Department of Anthropology, South Africa

   Ideas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as...

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   Mothering in socioeconomically marginalised communities in South Africa: A conceptual development

   Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Ingrid Onarheim Spjeldnæs --- , Norway

   From a sociopsychological perspective, mothering is variously described in the research literature. This theory synthesis research design study aims to integrate our current understanding of “the familiar” phenomenon of mothering by asking: (i) how mothering is understood across diverse realities...

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