Breast feeding: instinctive? Natural? the biological paragon X the reproductive rights in debate
Moreira, K.át.F.; Nakano, A.M.ár.
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 55(6): 685-690
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 0034-7167 PMID: 12836444 Document Number: 232728
The objective of this essay was to reflect about the naturalization of the breastfeeding, inserting the field of the breastfeeding in the range of the women rights, seeking to destroy the paragon that biologizes the female body to the maternal functions, in special to the breastfeeding in the range of the reproductive rights. In discussion we protrude the importance of the actions which estimulate the breastfeeding are embrased in the notion of the reproductives rights, which will allow the health professionals to comprehend the meaning of the breastfeeding in the women's mark of life and their everyday. By the end, we propose that the reproductive rights drive the actions of breastfeeding incentive developed by the health professionals, in the perspective of to redeem the view of the women while the main subject of this practice.