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| Title |
“The way to break the taboo is to do the taboo thing” breastfeeding in public and citizen-activism in the UK
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| Published in |
Health & Place, July 2010
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.06.013 |
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| Authors |
Kate Boyer |
| Abstract |
Like other forms of infant feeding, breastfeeding is a fundamental act of care. Yet despite being the recommended way of feeding babies, breastfeeding is not always easy to do. In addition to lack of support, bio-physical problems and the need to return to work; discomfort with breastfeeding in public is a factor shaping infant feeding choice (and the decision to stop breastfeeding specifically). With increased awareness of breast milk's health benefits in recent years, there has been a rise in efforts to make breastfeeding in public more commonplace and socially acceptable (including through lactation advocacy or "lactivism"). This paper considers breastfeeding in public and lactation advocacy in the UK through interviews with lactation activists, non-activist breastfeeding mothers, and participant-observation at two breastfeeding picnics held in 2009. Building on existing scholarship in Geography, I suggest that lactivism can be understood as an effort to expand the boundaries of where care-work is allowed to take place: thus constituting a form of "care-work activism". |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 25 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 14 | 56% |
| Curaçao | 1 | 4% |
| Australia | 1 | 4% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 32% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 13 | 52% |
| Scientists | 7 | 28% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | 12% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 137 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 131 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 29 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 20 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 19 | 14% |
| Researcher | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 11% |
| Unknown | 36 | 26% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 28 | 20% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 14% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 5% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 19 | 14% |
| Unknown | 41 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 April 2021.
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#1,623,343
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#263
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#5,343
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#1
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