Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment by Alys Einion, Jen Rinaldi
Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment

Alys Einion, Jen Rinaldi

Bearing the Weight of the World: Exploring Maternal Embodiment

Alys Einion, Jen Rinaldi

275 pages missing pub info (editions)

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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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, idealize...

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