Jo Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bournemouth University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Draw, write and tell’
The creative research method ‘draw and write’ has been used in health, social care and education research for several decades. A literature search of studies utilising this method was conducted during the planning stages of a study exploring primary school children’s perceptions of infant feeding. A review of this literature noted a range of benefits of ‘draw and write’ in enabling child participation. However, it also identified that the method …
Expressionists of the Twenty-First Century
Breast milk expression has been promoted as liberating for women and as offering them more choices, but there has been little research on women's experiences of it and even less critical commentary on the consequences of its incorporation into mainstream behavior. Drawing on narratives of women in the United Kingdom about breastfeeding, we explore the increasingly popular practice of expressing and feeding expressed breast milk. We argue that bre…
Calling, Permission, and Fulfillment
Drawing on examples from in-depth interviews with 49 women, in this article we aim to open up a discursive space for women and health professionals to begin to explore the phenomenon of the interembodied experience of breastfeeding. Although acknowledging that social dimensions partially constitute the lived body, we further the view that the lived body's understanding is embedded in contexts far more complex than those that can be represented by…
Moral work in women's narratives of breastfeeding
Parental distress around supplementing breastfed babies using nasogastric tubes on the post‐natal ward
There is abundant evidence of the benefits of breastfeeding. In the UK, supplementation in hospital has consistently been shown to be associated with shortened duration of breastfeeding. This paper reports on a subset of the data from an ethnographic study that explored the expectations, beliefs and experiences of mothers and health professionals concerning supplementation, using a variety of methods, of breastfed babies in an English maternity u…
Just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis
Just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis
Moral work in women's narratives of breastfeeding
Calling, Permission, and Fulfillment
Drawing on examples from in-depth interviews with 49 women, in this article we aim to open up a discursive space for women and health professionals to begin to explore the phenomenon of the interembodied experience of breastfeeding. Although acknowledging that social dimensions partially constitute the lived body, we further the view that the lived body's understanding is embedded in contexts far more complex than those that can be represented by…
Expressionists of the Twenty-First Century
Breast milk expression has been promoted as liberating for women and as offering them more choices, but there has been little research on women's experiences of it and even less critical commentary on the consequences of its incorporation into mainstream behavior. Drawing on narratives of women in the United Kingdom about breastfeeding, we explore the increasingly popular practice of expressing and feeding expressed breast milk. We argue that bre…
Just a bystander'? Men's place in the process of fetal screening and diagnosis
Parental distress around supplementing breastfed babies using nasogastric tubes on the post‐natal ward
There is abundant evidence of the benefits of breastfeeding. In the UK, supplementation in hospital has consistently been shown to be associated with shortened duration of breastfeeding. This paper reports on a subset of the data from an ethnographic study that explored the expectations, beliefs and experiences of mothers and health professionals concerning supplementation, using a variety of methods, of breastfed babies in an English maternity u…
Moral work in women's narratives of breastfeeding
Calling, Permission, and Fulfillment
Drawing on examples from in-depth interviews with 49 women, in this article we aim to open up a discursive space for women and health professionals to begin to explore the phenomenon of the interembodied experience of breastfeeding. Although acknowledging that social dimensions partially constitute the lived body, we further the view that the lived body's understanding is embedded in contexts far more complex than those that can be represented by…
Expressionists of the Twenty-First Century
Breast milk expression has been promoted as liberating for women and as offering them more choices, but there has been little research on women's experiences of it and even less critical commentary on the consequences of its incorporation into mainstream behavior. Drawing on narratives of women in the United Kingdom about breastfeeding, we explore the increasingly popular practice of expressing and feeding expressed breast milk. We argue that bre…
Draw, write and tell’
The creative research method ‘draw and write’ has been used in health, social care and education research for several decades. A literature search of studies utilising this method was conducted during the planning stages of a study exploring primary school children’s perceptions of infant feeding. A review of this literature noted a range of benefits of ‘draw and write’ in enabling child participation. However, it also identified that the method …
Medicine (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Breastfeeding (4 works) · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (4 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Breast feeding (2 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works)