This paper reviews the literature on pregnancy, examining two dominant discourses:“the
pregnant body as foetal containment” and “the pregnant body as illness”. A third discourse …

In 'Confined Subjects', I suggest that notions of embodied subjectivity are confused and
compromised in pregnancy by the porous, open and changing boundaries of the pregnant …

Pregnant bodies are sites of extraordinary flux. The most obvious changes are corporeal as
bodies leak, flow, ooze, and are transfigured. In this way, pregnant bodies exhibit …

Whilst pregnancy can be defined biologically as the implantation of a fertilized ovum in a
woman's uterus, the meaning and significance of pregnancy can be considered social. As …

This chapter brings the maternal body back in to view by focusing on the embodied
experiences of pregnancy. To do so, I draw first on feminist sociological and philosophical …

In their dominant, institutionalized iterations within the field of women and gender studies, as
well as in much feminist theory, the concepts of female empowerment, self-direction, and …

Pregnant women undergo a bodily process that transgresses the boundary between inside
and outside, self and other, one and two, mother and fetus, subject and object (see Young …

Abstract<? Pub Inc> This dissertation investigates the socially and physically embodied
experience of pregnancy. Analyzing qualitative interviews with 42 culturally diverse women …

This piece explores the various factors which shape one's experience of pregnant
embodiment: it demonstrates that these sensations are dependent not only upon learned …

This article is an ethnographic look at the importance of control of the female body in
contemporary US society. Specifically, this article examines how the idea of “getting the …