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Making 'postmodern' mothers = pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making 'postmodern' mothers/ Meredith Nash.
Reminder of title:	pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image /
Author:	Nash, Meredith,
Published:	Houndmills, Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Pregnancy - Psychological aspects. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137292155
ISBN:	9781137292155 (electronic bk.)

Making 'postmodern' mothers = pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image /
Nash, Meredith,1980-

Making 'postmodern' motherspregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image /[electronic resource] :Meredith Nash. - Houndmills, Basingstoke ;Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references.

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

This book, the first of its kind, 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. This study draws on original qualitative data based on interviews with pregnant women, their partners, and maternity industry professionals including maternity designers. The voices of pregnant women are located at the centre of a range of competing social discourses to reveal what the author describes as 'postmodern' pregnancy, an experience that highlights the contradictions inherent in being a contemporary woman in the West: Eat junk food but do not get fat. Wear 'sexy' clothing but be a 'good' selfless mother. Be 'fit' but do not exercise too much. 'Postmodern' pregnancy features as an ambivalent and uncertain experience, with women constantly negotiating the boundaries of both femininity and motherhood in a neo-liberal socio-political and economic context that both promotes and constrains their 'choices'.

ISBN: 9781137292155 (electronic bk.)

Source: 539321Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Pregnancy
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LC Class. No.: RG560 / .N37 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 618.2

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