Breastfeeding in Socio-Experiential Context

Contact details

Author:
Kate O'Hara
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Stirling
k.a.ohara@stir.ac.uk
@Kate_OHara_

Supervisor for this project:
Ben Matthews
ben.matthews@stir.ac.uk

Project details

"Breastfeeding in Socio-experiential context" is my MSc dissertation research project, conducted under the supervision of Dr Ben Matthews at the University of Stirling between September 2020 and September 2022. The aim of the project was to create a descriptive analysis of early breastfeeding in Scotland, with particular attention to the role of social environment and previous breastfeeding experience as contexts for the individual breastfeeding attempt.

References

1. Dataset
   Scottish Government. (2017). Scottish Maternal and Infant Nutrition Survey 2017. In 2018. https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-maternal-infant-nutrition-survey-2017/pages/8/%0Ahttp://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/02/7135/0
   
   

2. Unwanted early cessation of breastfeeding
   Brown, A. (2016). Breastfeeding Uncovered: Who really decides how we feed our babies? In urn:ISBN:1780662750. Pinter & Martin. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/
   
   

3. Personal experience and the attitudes of others
   Bailey, C., Pain, R. H., & Aarvold, J. E. (2004). A ‘give it a go’ breast-feeding culture and early cessation among low-income mothers. Midwifery, 20(3), 240–250. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.MIDW.2003.12.003
   Bartle, N. C., & Harvey, K. (2017a). Explaining infant feeding: The role of previous personal and vicarious experience on attitudes, subjective norms, self-efficacy, and breastfeeding outcomes. British Journal of Health Psychology, 22(4), 763–785. https://doi.org/10.1111/BJHP.12254
   Taylor, E. N., & Wallace, L. E. (2012). For Shame: Feminism, Breastfeeding Advocacy, and Maternal Guilt. Hypatia, 27(1), 76–98. https://doi.org/10.1111/J.1527-2001.2011.01238.X
   Thomson, G., Ingram, J., Clarke, J., Johnson, D., & Jolly, K. (2022). Who Gets to Breastfeed? A Narrative Ecological Analysis of Women’s Infant Feeding Experiences in the UK. Frontiers in Sociology, 7, 94. https://doi.org/10.3389/FSOC.2022.904773/BIBTEX
   
   

4. The varying prevalence of breastfeeding between social groups
   Skafida, V. (2009). The relative importance of social class and maternal education for breast-feeding initiation. Public Health Nutrition, 12(12), 2285–2292. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980009004947
   Skafida, V. (2014). Change in breastfeeding patterns in Scotland between 2004 and 2011 and the role of health policy. European Journal of Public Health, 24(6), 1033–1041. https://doi.org/10.1093/EURPUB/CKU029
   
   

5. Quantitative methodological developments in the intersectionality paradigm
   Evans, C. R. (2015). Innovative Approaches to Investigating Social Determinants of Health - Social Networks, Environmental Effects and Intersectionality. https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/23205168
   Evans, C. R., Williams, D. R., Onnela, J.-P., & Subramanian, S. V. (2018). A multilevel approach to modeling health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social identities. Social Science & Medicine, 203, 64–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.011

Talk - "Breastfeeding in socio-experiential context - a multilevel and intersectional perspective"

Social Stratification Research Seminar, 30th August 2023, University of Stirling

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