Title Making 'postmodern' mothers : pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image / Meredith Nash

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Genders and sexualities in the social sciences Genders and sexualities in the social sciences. Contents The research story -- Theories, frameworks and debates -- "In-between" pregnant bodies -- Visibly pregnant bodies -- Dressing and maternity fashion -- Eating for two? -- Exercise Summary This book provides ... a multi-disciplinary, empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it fits into wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', feminism, celebrity and motherhood Analysis Australian Notes Formerly CIP. Uk Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-234) and index Subject Body image in women. Human body -- Social aspects. Maternity clothes -- Social aspects. Pregnancy -- Psychological aspects. Pregnancy -- Social aspects. Motherhood. Pregnant women. Pregnancy -- psychology. Body Image -- psychology. Pregnant Women -- psychology. LC no. 2012034968 ISBN 0230355439 (hbk.) 9780230355439 (hbk.)

Other Titles Pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image

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