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

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.

Main Author: Nash, M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Edition:1st ed. 2012.
Series:Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Subjects:
Sociology.
Human body—Social aspects.
Culture.
Medicine .
Health.
Social groups.
Family.
Feminist theory.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of the Body.
Sociology of Culture.
Popular Science in Medicine and Health.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Feminism.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292155
Summary: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.
Physical Description:IX, 247 p. online resource.
ISBN:9781137292155

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