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Fatness and the maternal body : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality.
- Fertility, reproduction and sexuality
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obesity in women.
- Women--Physiology.
- Women.
- Body image in women.
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness, reproduction, and what is considered natural.A""
- Contents:
- Fatness and the Maternal Body; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature'; Chapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves; Chapter 4. Women of Great Weight; Chapter 5. Childbearing, Breastfeeding and Body Weight in Tanzania; Chapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle'; Chapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body; Chapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise; Chapter 9. The Maharaja Mac; Chapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health?; Chapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857451231
- 0857451235
- OCLC:
- 746746877
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