Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy (Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives #22)

By: Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 246 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9780857451231
Related ISBNs:: 9780857451224
Publisher:: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 05/22/21
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Parenting and Family, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Edited by:: Soraya Tremayne