Breastfeeding vs Capitalism: Motherhood and Culture in Korea

Liss Anda is a clincal psychologist and associate professor working at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Her research currently centers on perinatal mental health. She is especially interested in how cultural understandings and practices of maternity interact with mental wellbeing in new mothers. She also receives clients in a private practice as a therapist, where she takes a humanist and eclectic approach.

She has two kids, two cats, nine fish and some shrimp, has fully renovated two traditional wooden houses from 1908, the latter of which also just about fits her husband. She loves travelling, reading, cinema, eating and laughing. She is a Korean adoptee, born in Busan.

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Discussion Outline

0:00 Postpartum depression

5:39 Baby wearing

11:50 Is motherhood innate?

16:50 Are attitudes to children changing?

21:10 Are we better educated?

31:00 Are parents different from non-parents?

35:50 Korean motherhood

50:40 Teenage Mothers and Exporting Children

58:00 Changing gender attitudes

1:08:55 Is the collective unconsciousness real?

1:19:00 Love in Korean society

1:36 Advice for parents

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David A. Tizzard has a PhD in Korean Studies and lectures at Seoul Women's University and Hanyang University. He writes a weekly column in the Korea Times, is a social-cultural commentator, and a musician who has lived in Korea for nearly two decades. He can be reached at datizzard@swu.ac.kr.

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