Fatness and the Maternal Body : : Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy / / ed. by Soraya Tremayne, Maya Unnithan-Kumar.
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...
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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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
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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