TY  - BOOK
AU  - Aikins,Ama de-Graft
AU  - Aphramor,Lucy
AU  - Clarke,Shauna
AU  - Davies,Michael
AU  - Gingras,Jacqui
AU  - Guntupalli,Aravinda Meera
AU  - Heslehurst,Nicola
AU  - Mabilia,Mara
AU  - Moore,Vivienne
AU  - Randall,Sara
AU  - Sridhar,Devi
AU  - Tremayne,Soraya
AU  - Unnithan-Kumar,Maya
AU  - Walentowitz,Saskia
AU  - Warin,Megan
TI  - Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy 
T2  - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
SN  - 9780857451224
AV  - RA625.O23 F37 2011
U1  - 362.196/3980082 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Body image in women
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Fertility
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Symbolic aspects
KW  - Obesity in women
KW  - Obesity
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Overweight persons
KW  - Pregnancy
KW  - Women
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Physiology
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology, Gender Studies and Sexuality
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857451231
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857451231
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857451231/original
ER  -