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Pregnancy provides a very public, visual confirmation of femininity. It is a time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is surrounded by stereotyping, taboos and social expectations. This book seeks to examine these popular attitudes towards pregnancy and to consider how they influence women's experiences of being pregnant.Sanctioning Pregnancy offers a unique critique of sociocultural constructions of pregnancy and the ways in which it is represented in contemporary culture, and examines the common myths which exist about diet, exercise and work in pregnancy, alongside notions of risk and media portrayals of pregnant women. Topics covered include:Do pregnant women change their diet and why?Is memory really impaired in pregnancy?How risky behaviour is defined from exercise to employmentThe biomedical domination of pregnancy research.Different theoretical standpoints are critically examined, including a medico-scientific model, feminist perspectives and bio-psychosocial and psychodynamic approaches.
Autoren-Porträt von Harriet Gross, Helen Pattison
Harriet Gross is a Lecturer in Psychology at Loughborough University. After working in the book trade, she took a degree in psychology and subsequently became an academic. She is a developmental psychologist, and researches and publishes in the area of the psychology of pregnancy and women's health.
Helen Pattison is a Health Psychologist, and Associate Director of Research in the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University. She researches and publishes in the areas of reproductive health, parental health behaviour, self-management of health, risk perception and communication.
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Autoren:
Harriet Gross
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Helen Pattison
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2007, 192 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10: 1134617364
- ISBN-13: 9781134617364
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.05.2007
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