Journal article
Moralising Rhetoric and Imperfect Realities: Breastfeeding Promotions and the Experiences of Recently Delivered Mothers in Urban Yogyakarta, Indonesia
BRM Spagnoletti, LR Bennett, M Kermode, SA Wilopo
Asian Studies Review | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Exclusive breastfeeding is embedded in National Health Law and Regulation in Indonesia and is vigorously promoted by health workers, breastfeeding counsellors and religious leaders. This article explores the transformation of state legislation into breastfeeding promotions that are imbued with moralising assumptions directed at expectant women, new mothers and their partners. Drawing on an 18-month ethnographic study, the rhetoric of breastfeeding promotion messages is contrasted with the narratives of urban middle-class mothers in Yogyakarta. This article highlights the challenges women experience in their attempts to breastfeed and the divergence between the moralising rhetoric of breastfe..
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Awarded by Australia Awards
Funding Acknowledgements
The first author is the recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship, a Nossal Global Health Scholars Program studentship and a Graduate Women Victoria Bursary in Memory of Feminist Fathers. An Endeavour Research Fellowship was also awarded to the first author in 2014 to support the fieldwork.