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 …

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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 …

Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in'the body'as an
important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships …

A searing study of how modern reproductive politics shapes women's bodily agency
Pregnancy indisputably takes place within a woman's body. But as reproductive power finds …

Within a context of intensifying global displacement, the experience of birthing across
borders is becoming a reality for many. We catch incomplete glimpses of these realities …

21 SHOPPING CENTRES AND BODIES and environments in which each produces the
other (Grosz 1992: 242). Elizabeth Grosz (1992: 242) argues:'the city is one of the crucial …

The built spaces and discursive spaces that contemporary mothers inhabit constitute a
powerful force that helps shape their subjectivities and their possibilities, define who …

One of the most pressing of the many unanswered questions about prenatal space-how
women's bodies are articulated spatially with the general social topography-explicitly frames …

Drawing on Judith Butler's notion of performativity I examine some of the ambivalences and
contradictions surrounding the exposure of pregnant bodies in public places. I focus on a …