Bearing the Weight of the World Exploring Maternal Embodiment - Couverture souple

Einion, Alys

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1772581712 ISBN 13 : 9781772581713

Editeur : Demeter Press, 2018

Synopsis

The maternal body is a site of contested dynamics of power, identity, experience, autonomy, occupation, and control. Representations of the maternal body can mis/represent the childbearing and mothering form variously, often as monstrous, idealized, limited, scrutinized, or occupied, whilst dominant discourses limit motherhood through social devaluation. The maternal body has long been a hypervisible artifact: at once bracketed out in the interest of elevating the contributions of sperm-carriers or fetal status; and regarded with hostility and suspicion as out of control. Such arguments are deployed to justify surveillance mechanisms, medical scrutiny, and expectation of self-discipline.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Alys Einion is Associate Professor of Midwifery and Reproductive Health at Swansea University, Wales, UK. She gained her PhD from Aberystwyth University, studying women's narratives, the boundaries between fiction and non-fiction and writing sexual violence. She is a prolific writer and an equality activist. She is currently working with narrative representations of pregnancy and childbirth, hypnobirthing and midwifery identity and self-storying. She is also a novelist. Dr. Jen Rinaldi is an Assistant Professor in the Legal Studies program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. She earned a Doctoral degree in Critical Disability Studies at York University, where she researched how disability diagnostic technologies affect reproductive decision-making. Currently she engages with narrative and arts-based methodologies to deconstruct eating disorder recovery, and to story traumatic histories of institutionalization.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Demeter Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1772581712
• ISBN 13: 9781772581713
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible