Infant Feeding Practices

- Infant feeding beliefs and practices across cultures: An introduction

Part I: Social Construction of Infant Feeding & Policy Framework

- Shifting identities: Social and cultural factors that shape decision making around sustaining breastfeeding

- Managing the lactating body: The breast-feeding project at the age of anxiety

- Infant feeding as a social problem: A study of developments in Great Britain

- The imperative to breastfeed: A socio-cultural perspective

- Socio-cultural dynamics and infant feeding practices in northern Ghana: Implications for health policy in Ghana

Part II: Women, Work and Infant Feeding Practices

- Measuring the maternal: Managing the work of breastfeeding and employment

- Good mother, infant feeding and social change in northern Thailand

- Breastfeeding practice among employed Thai women: A cultural perspective

Part III: Infant Feeding Practices and HIV/AIDS

- Infant feeding in the era of HIV: Challenges and opportunities

- HIV/AIDS transmission through breastmilk in sub-Saharan Africa: The past, the present and the future

- From traditional breastfeeding practices to optimal breastfeeding practices, the cases of the Gambia and Malawi

Part IV: Infant Feeding Beliefs and Practices Within Socio-Cultural Context

- Fluid boundaries: Multiple meanings of the illness 'Moto' in northern Malawi

- Perceptions of Maori women and their whanau (family) towards barriers in achieving best outcomes in infant breastfeeding

- Breastfeeding among Indigenous mothers in Australia

- Infant feeding beliefs and practices across cultures: Focusing on Turkey as a case in point

- Early initiation of breastfeeding and its beneficial effects in Japan

- Socio-cultural determinants of infant's feeding patterns within six months postpartum in rural Vietnam

- Infant feeding practices following migration: initial attitudes and practices of women born in Turkey and Vietnam following migration to

Pranee Liamputtong is a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She has previously published a book with Springer: Doing Cross-Cultural Research: Ethical and Methodological Perspectives.

From the reviews:"This cross-cultural perspective of infant feeding practices investigates how mothers in a variety of cultures and sub-cultures make infant feeding decisions. ... The book's strength is its acknowledgement and coverage of the multiple interlocking factors that determine women's infant-feeding decisions, including the effects of class, geographical region and education, which affect the cultural background. ... This book will encourage reflection for clinicians, health policy-makers, sociologists, cultural historians, and mothers themselves." (Virginia Thorley, International Lactation consultant Association, November, 2011)