Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
© 2012
Making 'Postmodern' Mothers
Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image
Authors: Nash, M.
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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MEREDITH NASH is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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The Research Story
Pages 11-22
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Theories, Frameworks and Debates
Pages 23-40
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‘In-between’ Pregnant Bodies
Pages 41-61
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Visibly Pregnant Bodies
Pages 62-83
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Making 'Postmodern' Mothers
- Book Subtitle
- Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image
- Authors
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- M. Nash
- Series Title
- Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-29215-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137292155
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-35543-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-34713-1
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 247
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