Fatness and the Maternal Body : : Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy / / ed. by Soraya Tremayne, Maya Unnithan-Kumar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Aikins, Ama de-Graft,; Aphramor, Lucy,; Clarke, Shauna,; Davies, Michael,; Gingras, Jacqui,; Guntupalli, Aravinda Meera,; Heslehurst, Nicola,; Mabilia, Mara,; Moore, Vivienne,; Randall, Sara,; Sridhar, Devi,; Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,; Walentowitz, Saskia,; Warin, Megan,
• HerausgeberIn: Tremayne, Soraya,; Unnithan-Kumar, Maya,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION. CORPOREALITY AND REPRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING FATNESS THROUGH THE DIVERSE EXPERIENCES OF MOTHERHOOD, CONSUMPTION AND SOCIAL REGULATION -- Chapter 2 THE TRAFFIC IN ‘NATURE’: MATERNAL BODIES AND OBESITY -- Chapter 3 FAT AND FERTILITY, MOBILITY AND SLAVES: LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVES ON TUAREG OBESITY AND REPRODUCTION -- Chapter 4 WOMEN OF GREAT WEIGHT: FATNESS, REPRODUCTION AND GENDER DYNAMICS IN TUAREG SOCIETY -- Chapter 5 CHILDBEARING, BREASTFEEDING AND BODY WEIGHT IN TANZANIA: THREE BODIES, THREE INDIVIDUALS, MANY DIFFERENT INTERRELATIONS AMONG THE WAGOGO (CENTRAL TANZANIA) -- Chapter 6 THE ‘OBESITY CYCLE’: THE IMPACT OF MATERNAL OBESITY ON THE EXOGENOUS AND ENDOGENOUS CAUSES OF OBESITY IN OFFSPRING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- Chapter 7 CULTURE, DIET AND THE MATERNAL BODY: GHANAIAN WOMEN’S PERSPECTIVES ON FOOD, FAT AND CHILDBEARING -- Chapter 8 UNHEALTHY, UNWEALTHY, UNWISE: SOCIAL POLICY AND NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION IN A DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY IN IRELAND -- Chapter 9 THE MAHARAJA MAC: CHANGING DIETARY PATTERNS IN INDIA -- Chapter 10 IS THERE A RELATION BETWEEN FATNESS AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH? A STUDY OF BODY MASS INDEX AND THE REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF INDIAN WOMEN -- Chapter 11 REPRODUCING INEQUALITIES: THEORIES AND ETHICS IN DIETETICS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX