Fatness and the maternal body : women's experiences of corporeality and the shaping of social policy / / edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, c2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.196/3980082
• Soggetto topico: Obesity in women; Women - Physiology; Body image in women; Human body - Social aspects; Human body - Symbolic aspects
• Altri autori: Unnithan-KumarMaya <1961-> TremayneSoraya
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Fatness and the Maternal Body; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature'; Chapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves; Chapter 4. Women of Great Weight; Chapter 5. Childbearing, Breastfeeding and Body Weight in Tanzania; Chapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle'; Chapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body; Chapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise; Chapter 9. The Maharaja Mac; Chapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health?; Chapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities; Notes on Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Fatness and the maternal body
• ISBN: 0-85745-123-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819249203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality.