Ryan K M, Grace V M
School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, P.O. Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Health Care Women Int. 2001 Jul-Aug;22(5):483-500. doi: 10.1080/073993301317094308.
For most of the twentieth century infant feeding knowledge has been constructed by medical scientists and health professionals. However, for a short time around the 1970s, New Zealand women (re)claimed the power to author their own knowledge based upon experience. This coincided with a dramatic return to breastfeeding on a national scale. Using New Zealand women's narratives of their infant feeding experiences over the past 50 years, this article brings to the foreground the importance of women's subjective construction of knowledge, their positioning within it, and the suppression of rudimentary discourses when that power is removed or relinquished in the process of remedicalization.
在20世纪的大部分时间里，婴儿喂养知识一直由医学科学家和健康专家构建。然而，在20世纪70年代左右的一段短暂时间里，新西兰女性基于自身经验（重新）获得了创造属于自己知识的权力。这与全国范围内母乳喂养率的大幅回升相吻合。本文利用新西兰女性对过去50年婴儿喂养经历的叙述，凸显了女性知识的主观构建、她们在其中的定位，以及在重新医学化过程中这种权力被剥夺或放弃时基本话语的被压制的重要性。
