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Language, gender and pregnancy loss / Beth Malory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Malory, Beth, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge elements. Elements in language, gender and sexuality
- Cambridge elements. Elements in language, gender and sexuality, 3634-8772
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fetal death--Terminology.
- Fetal death.
- Language and emotions.
- Language and medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "This Element explores the gendered dimensions of the ways language used to describe, define, and diagnose pregnancy loss impacts experiences of receiving and delivering healthcare in a UK context. It situates experiences of pregnancy loss language against the backdrop of gender role expectations, ideological tensions around reproductive choice, and medical misogyny; asking how language both reflects and influences contemporary gender norms and understandings of maternal responsibility. To do this, the Element analyses 10 focus group transcripts from metalinguistic discussions with 42 lived experience and healthcare professional participants, and 202 written metalinguistic contributions from the same cohorts. It demonstrates the gendered social and symbolic meanings of diagnostic terminology such as miscarriage, incompetent cervix, and termination or abortion in the context of a wanted pregnancy, as well as clinical discourses, on the experience of pregnancy loss and subsequent recovery and wellbeing"-- Cambridge University Press.
- Contents:
- Calls for change
- Data and method
- Pregnancy loss language and notions of ‘good motherhood’
- Pregnancy loss language and the ‘gender pain gap’.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge University Press, viewed November 4, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Malory, Beth. Language, gender and pregnancy loss
- ISBN:
- 9781009633840
- 1009633848
- 9781009633857
- 1009633856
- OCLC:
- 1539300196
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000281549
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
- Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access
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