Title Maternities : gender, bodies and space / Robyn Longhurst

Published New York : Routledge, [2008] ©2008

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Description xv, 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm Series Routledge international studies of women and place ; 7 Routledge international studies of women and place. Contents 1. A Series of Windows -- 2. 'Mum's the Word': 'Coming Out' as Pregnant at Work -- 3. (Ad)dressing Pregnant Bodies: Clothing, Fashion, Subjectivities and Spatialities -- 4. Pregnant and Disabled: 'Body Troubles'? -- 5. A Pornography of Birth: Crossing Moral Boundaries -- 6. At Home with Birth -- 7. 'Queer Breastfeeding': (Im)proper Spaces of Lactation -- 8. 'Bad' Mothers: (Re)presentations of Lack -- 9. Clubmom.com: Constructing Maternal Identities in Cyberspace -- 10. Conclusion: The Contradictory Spaces of Mothering -- App. Research Methods Notes New Zealand author Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index Subject Body image in women. Pregnant women -- Public opinion. Mothers -- Public opinion. Pregnant women -- Attitudes. Mothers -- Attitudes. Pregnancy -- Social aspects. Feminist geography. Mothers -- Social conditions. Human body -- Social aspects. Motherhood. Human geography. LC no. 2007022779 ISBN 9780415360463 hardback alkaline paper 0415360463 hardback alkaline paper

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