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Introduction, seems strange to think that pregnant women fear ‘fat’. After all, pregnancy is a time when women are . to gain weight. In this book, I argue that in the midst of moral panics about maternal ‘obesity’ in the West, body image anxieties in pregnancy are more common than we think, and that there are ho

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Theories, Frameworks and Debates,ancy’, it is first necessary to go back to the roots of this fragmented, multi-dimensional and contested experience for women. In this chapter, my aim is to provide the reader with a foundation for the subsequent chapters on the more precise points in women’s experiences of ‘postmodern’ pregnancy. T

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,‘In-between’ Pregnant Bodies,y pregnancy presents women with a number of physical and emotional challenges as they try to adjust to this new corporeality. As I shall argue, for the women in my study, the recognition of pregnancy itself was increasingly complex and its ‘discovery’, as well as its embodied and psychological accep

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Visibly Pregnant Bodies,eir feelings of ‘fatness’ would resolve themselves when they ‘looked’ pregnant.. In this chapter, however, I shall show that their experiences of visible pregnancy proved to be equally as problematic and uncomfortable as early pregnant corporealities.

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Dressing and Maternity Fashion,these experiences. In this chapter, I want to begin to think about the ways in which pregnant women manage their bodies and identities through everyday experiences like dressing. In particular, I will focus on the experiential dimensions of buying and wearing maternity clothing for women in my group

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Eating for Two?,the lenses of eating and consumption. This chapter explores how my participants’ pregnant bodies were constructed as being ‘a(chǎn)t risk’ of numerous environmental and medical threats: their bodies were also viewed as being ‘a(chǎn)t risk’ based on the lifestyle choices made by the mother-to-be and their cumul

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Exercise,st ‘work’ very hard to achieve a pregnant body that conforms to social expectations of good motherhood. This chapter further extends this theme by looking at the multiple ways in which a good and fit pregnant body with a taut, tight ‘bump’ is perceived to be an achievement. During the period of rese

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Conclusion, visible, ‘public’ obsessions evident across many representations and discourses of contemporary western motherhood. Demi Moore, arguably the first ‘glamour mum’ in her groundbreaking naked and pregnant . portrait, has been viewed as the figurehead for this recent movement. Since 1991, a growing leg