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Berghahn Books Fatness and the Maternal Body Womens Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy 2011 Edition by Maya Unnithan-Kumar, Soraya Tremayne
Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, contributors to the volume examine how the language and notions of obesity connect with, or stand apart from, wider societal values and moralities to do with the body, fatness, reproduction and what is considered 'natural'. A focus on fatness in the context of human reproduction and motherhood offers instructive insights into the global circulation and authority of biomedical facts on fatness (as 'risky' anti-fit, for example). As with other social and cultural studies critical of health policy discourse, this volume challenges the spontaneous connection being made in scientific and popular understanding between fatness and ill health. Table of contents :- List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceChapter 1. Introduction: Corporeality and Reproduction: Understanding Fatness through the Diverse Experiences of Motherhood, Consumption and Social RegulationMaya Unnithan-KumarChapter 2. The Traffic in 'Nature': Maternal Bodies and ObesityMegan Warin, Vivienne Moore and Michael DaviesChapter 3. Fat and Fertility, Mobility and Slaves: Long-term Perspectives on Tuareg Obesity and ReproductionSara RandallChapter 4. Women of Great Weight: Fatness, Reproduction and Gender Dynamics in Tuareg SocietySaskia WalentowitzChapter 5. Childbearing, Breast-feeding and Body Weight in Tanzania: Three Bodies, Three Individuals, Many Different Interrelations among the Wagogo (Central Tanzania)Mara MabiliaChapter 6. The 'Obesity Cycle': The Impact of Maternal Obesity on the Exogenous and Endogenous Causes of Obesity in Offspring in the United KingdomNicola HeslehurstChapter 7. Culture, Diet and the Maternal Body: Ghanaian Women's Perspectives on Food, Fat and ChildbearingAma de-Graft AikinsChapter 8. Unhealthy, Unwealthy, Unwise: Social Policy and Nutritional Education in a Disadvantaged Community in IrelandShauna ClarkeChapter 9. The Maharaja Mac: Changing Dietary Patterns in IndiaDevi SridharChapter 10. Is there a Relation between Fatness and Reproductive Health? A Study on Body Mass Index and Reproductive Health of Indian WomenAravinda Meera GuntupalliChapter 11. Reproducing Inequalities: Theories and Ethics in DieteticsLucy Aphramor and Jacqui GingrasNotes on ContributorsIndex