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0433/2016 - Maternity and breastfeeding: identity, body and gender
Maternidade e amamentação: identidade, corpo e gênero

Author:

• Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani - Giordani, R. C. F. - Universidade Federal do Parana, Nutrição - <rubiagiordani@gmail.com, rubiagiordani@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5698-7981

Co-author(s):

• Daniele Piccoli da Silva - Silva, Daniele Piccoli da - Universidade Federal do Parana Setor de Ciencias da Saude, Nutrição - <2013.danieleps@gmail.com>
• Islandia Bezerra - BEZERRA, I. - Universidade Federal do Parana, NUTRIÇÃO - <islandia@ufpr.br>
• Claudia Choma Almeida - Almeida, Claudia Choma - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Nutrição - <clauchoma@gmail.com>

Thematic Area:

Ciências Sociais

Abstract:

Breastfeeding is a multifaceted phenomenon involving the complexity of the social world, the roles assumed by individuals, their attributes and social expectations. This theoretical essay proposes a reflection on motherhood, problematizing the experience of breastfeeding and the construction of social identity approaching Anselm Strauss’s sociological concepts of interactionism. This essay tried to make associations between body, identity, and socialization processes in adulthood, generated by new social demands in fulfilling the roles of woman and mother, focusing on the breastfeeding experience. The way motherhood is designed in the contemporary society and the register of breastfeeding as a nature phenomenon are problematized to give the woman a vocation to motherhood and breastfeeding, producing a social expectation of innate ability to perform them.

Keywords:

maternitybreastfeedingsocial identitybodyinteractionism

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Giordani, R. C. F., Silva, Daniele Piccoli da, BEZERRA, I., Almeida, Claudia Choma. Maternity and breastfeeding: identity, body and gender. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Sep). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/maternity-and-breastfeeding-identity-body-and-gender/15859?id=15859



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