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Fatness and the Maternal Body - Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy (Hardcover, New)
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Fatness and the Maternal Body - Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy (Hardcover, New)
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
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Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a
clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a
corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of
fatness, body shape and size. 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 focus on fatness
in the context of human reproduction and motherhood offers
instructive insights into the global circulation and authority of
biomedical facts on fatness (as 'risky' anti-fit, for example). As
with other social and cultural studies critical of health policy
discourse, this volume challenges the spontaneous connection being
made in scientific and popular understanding between fatness and
ill health.
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