Maternities
Subtitle: gender, bodies, and spaces
By: Robyn Longhurst.
Series: Routledge international studies of women and place
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Routledge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415360463
Subjects: Motherhood; Mothers -- Social conditions; Body, Human -- Social aspects; Pregnancy -- Social aspects; Human geography; Feminist geography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A series of windows; title: "Mum's" the word : "coming out" as pregnant at work; title: (Ad)dressing pregnant bodies : clothing, fashion, subjectivities, and spatialities; title: Pregnant and disabled : "body troubles"?; title: A pornography of birth : crossing moral boundaries; title: At home with birth; title: "Queer breastfeeding" : (im)proper spaces of lactation; title: "Bad" mothers : (re)presentations of lack; title: Clubmom.com : constructing maternal identities in cyberspace; title: Conclusion: The contradictory spaces of mothering; title: Appendix: Research methods.