Shannon Carter
Associate Professor
Department of sociology
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Shannon Carter, Ph.D., Dr. Carter is Assistant Professor of Sociology. Her primary research areas are sociology of reproduction, social inequalities, and sociology of health and medicine. Her research has examined women’s accounts of their gender performances during childbirth in out-of-hospital settings, perceptions of body/self relationships during pregnancy and birth, and infant feeding consumerism. Her current projects focus on African American mothers’ breastfeeding experiences and peer breast milk sharing in Central Florida. Her work on reproduction is published in journals such as Sociology of Health & Illness, Women & Health, Journal of Consumer Culture, and Midwifery. She has articles forthcoming in Health, Risk & Society and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.
Research Interest
Reproduction, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Health & Medicine .
Publications
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2015 Carter, Shannon K., Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Tiffany Rogers. “Liquid Gold or Russian Roulette? Portrayals of Human Milk Sharing in U.S. News.†Health, Risk & Society 17(1): 30-45.
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2015 Reyes-Foster, Beatriz, Shannon K. Carter and Melanie Sberna Hinojosa. “Milk Sharing in Practice: A Descriptive Analysis of Peer Breast Milk Sharing.†Breastfeeding Medicine 10(5): 263-269.
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2015 Carter, Shannon K. and Amanda Koontz Anthony. “Good, Bad and Extraordinary Mothers: Infant Feeding and Mothering in African American Mothers’ Breastfeeding Narratives.†Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. 1(4): 517-531.
