1st Edition

Maternities Gender, Bodies and Space

By Robyn Longhurst Copyright 2008
208 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the,  most important of all bodies - bodies that conceive, give birth and nurture other... Read more

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.  Appendix: Research Methods

 

Biography

Robyn Longhurst is Professor of Geography at the University of Waikato New Zealand and is author of Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries (2001) and co-author of Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces (2001).