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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.
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MEREDITH NASH is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Australia.
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Book Title: Making 'Postmodern' Mothers
Book Subtitle: Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image
Authors: Meredith Nash
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292155
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-35543-9Published: 14 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34713-1Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29215-5Published: 14 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-8782
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 247
Topics: Gender Studies, Sociology of the Body, Sociology of Culture, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Feminism