Dominant notions of reproduction perceive childbearing as physical processes that take
place within women's bodies. This perception undermines non-physical components and …

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

This article examines the role of social context in the construction of meanings attached to
the pregnant body. Analyzing interviews with 42 women who, during the time of the …

A large body of literature engages with personal accounts of pregnancy to illustrate the
subjugation of women's embodied experience by practices of biomedicine. This article …

Abstract In the United States, childbearing is often conceptualised as a time when women
lose self‐control over their bodies. This project examines issues of bodily control through a …

This research project uses a social constructionist perspective to analyze women's uses of
the concepts of body, mind, emotions and self in their pregnancy and childbirth narratives …

Bodies that Birth puts birthing bodies at the centre of questions about contemporary birth
politics, power, and agency. Arguing that the fleshy and embodied aspects of birth have …

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 …

Birth is usually depicted as a moment of celebration, of love and tenderness. The often
sanitised image of birth, however, belies the ways in which birth spaces are spaces of acute …

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 …