Making ''Postmodern'' Mothers - Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image

Informationen zum Autor MEREDITH NASH is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Klappentext Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood. Zusammenfassung Based on interviews with pregnant women! this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender! bodies! 'fitness'! 'fat'! celebrity and motherhood. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Research Story Theories, Frameworks and Debates 'In-Between' Pregnant Bodies Visibly Pregnant Bodies Dressing and Maternity Fashion Eating for Two? Exercise Conclusion

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Introduction The Research Story Theories, Frameworks and Debates 'In-Between' Pregnant Bodies Visibly Pregnant Bodies Dressing and Maternity Fashion Eating for Two? Exercise Conclusion

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• Authors: M Nash, M. Nash
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9781349347131
• ISBN: 978-1-349-34713-1
• No. of pages: 247
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences; Genders and Sexualities in the; Genders and Sexualities in the; Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Gender Studies, Culture, Sociology, Feminism, Medicine, Sociology of Culture, Family, Anthropology, Health, Social groups, Popular medicine & health, Sociology: family & relationships, Feminism & feminist theory, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Clinical Medicine, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, feminism;gender;Image;sociology;women