Column: Black women health - Breastfeeding: Empowering Black Women
Breastfeeding is related to women’s reproduction and health. All women have the right to breastfeed as enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Breastfeeding also is related to women’s sex...
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Universidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso Costa
2007-08-01
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| Online Access: | http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/1071 |
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| author | Isabel CF da Cruz |
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| description | Breastfeeding is related to women’s reproduction and health. All women have the right to breastfeed as enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Breastfeeding also is related to women’s sexuality so, it is a gender issue and takes place to empowering women. Breastfeeding is particularly difficult for the black woman, marginalized by poverty, violence, poor nutritional status, job insecurities and gender/race inequalities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0e4884195116488581e952388fbc6fac2023-09-02T15:08:06ZengUniversidade Federal Fluminense, Escola de Enfermagem Aurora de Afonso CostaOnline Brazilian Journal of Nursing1676-42852007-08-0162Column: Black women health - Breastfeeding: Empowering Black WomenIsabel CF da CruzBreastfeeding is related to women’s reproduction and health. All women have the right to breastfeed as enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Breastfeeding also is related to women’s sexuality so, it is a gender issue and takes place to empowering women. Breastfeeding is particularly difficult for the black woman, marginalized by poverty, violence, poor nutritional status, job insecurities and gender/race inequalities.http://www.objnursing.uff.br/index.php/nursing/article/view/1071womenblacksracismsexismbreastfeeding |
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| title | Column: Black women health - Breastfeeding: Empowering Black Women |
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