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Contents

Acknowledgements
Illustrations

Introduction

Chapter 1. Cigongwe

  • Towards the village
  • Meeting with the village
  • Fieldwork
  • The route of the research

Chapter 2. The Gogo Women

  • The living space
  • The house
  • Nyumba: physical-residential unit, social-residential unit
  • The Gogo woman

Chapter 3. Breast Feeding

  • Breast feeding between nature and culture
  • The modalities of breast feeding
  • Breast milk
  • ‘Bad milk’ in only one breast

Chapter 4. The ‘Good Mother’, the ‘Bad Mother’: Diarrhoea as a Sign of Social Disorder

  • Inside the problem
  • Motherhood and mothering
  • The health of the newborn: a challenge to survival
  • Post-partum taboos

Chapter 5. Maternal Milk: Indicator of ‘Good Mother’

  • Breast feeding: a bridge between the different levels of the Gogo social system
  • The woman: mother and nurturer
  • A brief return to the village

Bibliography
Index

Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Mara Mabilia
Translated from the Italian by Mary S. Ash

176 pages, 4 tables, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-57181-677-1 Hb Published (June 2005)

eISBN 978-1-78238-607-0 eBook