essay

Breast-feeding and social class mobility: the case of Mexican migrant mothers in Houston, Texas

twice a minority : mexican american women • St. Louis, Missouri • Published In 1980 • Pages: 66-82

By: Acosta Johnson, Carmen.

Abstract
This paper consists of a series of interviews '…with mothers who had recently left an agrarian village setting in Mexico, a high birth-high death nation, and entered the urban industrial setting of Houston, an intermediate birth and death setting. The manner in which this migration affected their infant feeding practices is traced, and the implications for explaining the social class patterning of breast-feeding behavior are developed' (p. 66).
Subjects
Hospitals and clinics
Pregnancy
Childbirth
Postnatal care
Infant feeding
culture
Chicanos
HRAF PubDate
2002
Region
North America
Sub Region
Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Social Scientist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
John Beierle ; 2001
Field Date
no date
Coverage Date
not specified
Coverage Place
Houston, Texas, United States
Notes
Carmen Acosta Johnson
Includes bibliographical references (p. 82)
LCCN
80011177
LCSH
Mexican Americans