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In the previous chapter, I noted that women reported that they saw visible pregnancy as the opportunity to be seen in ‘new’ ways; that they thought their feelings of ‘fatness’ would resolve themselves when they ‘looked’ pregnant.1 In this chapter, however, I shall show that their experiences of visible pregnancy proved to be equally as problematic and uncomfortable as early pregnant corporealities.
Everyone knows now. I’d rather look pregnant than just chubby. (Beth, 25 weeks)
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Nash, M. (2012). Visibly Pregnant Bodies. In: Making ‘Postmodern’ Mothers. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137292155_5
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