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Making 'postmodern' mothers: pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image
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Nash, M, Making 'postmodern' mothers: pregnant embodiment, baby bumps and body image, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 264. ISBN 9780230355439 (2012) [Authored Research Book]
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copyright Meredith Nash 2012.
Official URL: http://www.palgravemacmillan.com.au/palgrave/onix/...
Abstract
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'.
Item Details
Item Type: | Authored Research Book |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in human society |
UTAS Author: | Nash, M (Associate Professor Meredith Nash) |
ID Code: | 80357 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
Deposited On: | 2012-10-30 |
Last Modified: | 2018-01-09 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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