Power to negotiate spatial barriers to breastfeeding in a western context: When motherhood meets poverty |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada;2. Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Canada;1. Graduate School of Engineering Science and Technology, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, 64002, Taiwan, ROC;2. Department of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, 64002, Taiwan, ROC;3. Graduate School of Electronic Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Douliu, 64002, Taiwan, ROC;1. Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA;1. Center for the Study of State and Society (CEDES), Sánchez de Bustamante 27, (1173), Buenos Aires, Argentina;2. Curatio International Foundation (CIF), Tbilisi, Georgia, USA;1. Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44321, USA;2. Air Force Research Laboratory, 2941 Hobson Way, WPAFB, OH 45433, USA;3. University of Dayton Research Institute, 300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469, USA |
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| Abstract: | Although breastfeeding is beneficial to the health of babies born into poverty, rates have remained consistently low among this group. This paper presents findings from a study conducted with poor French Canadian women, who were exposed to breastfeeding promotion. Analysis of 31 qualitative interviews suggests that the ‘good mother’ imperative in context of poverty and the western hypersexualization of breasts acted as major deterrents to breastfeeding. Poor mothers, lacked access to the power required to negotiate these barriers in their social space. Public health should prioritize the transformation of social and public spaces when promoting breastfeeding to poor mothers. |
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| Keywords: | Social space Poverty Breastfeeding Support Empowerment |
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