Weighty matters: Negotiating 'fatness' and 'in-betweenness' in early pregnancy

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 307-323

  Nash, Meredith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body image; fat; obesity; pregnancy; weight

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863657217     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353512445361     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Anderson B,Wylie J.On geography and materiality.Environment and Planning A. 2009;41:318-335.
2. Bailey L.Refracted selves? A study of changes in self-identity in the transition to motherhood.Sociology. 1999;33 (2): 335-352.
3. Bordo SUnbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 1993:.
4. Boscaglia N,Skouteris H,Wertheim E.Changes in body image satisfaction during pregnancy: A comparison of high exercising and low exercising women.Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. 2003;43 (1): 41-45.
5. Carryer J.Embodied largeness: A significant women's health issue.Nursing Inquiry. 2001;8 (2): 90-97.
6. Body Images: Development, Deviance, and Change. Cash TFPruzinsky T, ed. New York: Guilford; 1990:.
7. Charles N,Kerr M.Food for feminist thought.Sociological Review. 1986;34 (3): 537-572.
8. Charmaz K,Rosenfeld DBody/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Waskul DVannini P, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate; 2006:35-50.
9. Cixous H.The laugh of the Medusa.Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 1976;1 (4): 875-893.
10. Clark AESituational Analysis: Grounded Theory after the Postmodern Turn. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE; 2005:.
11. Clark A,Skouteris H,Wertheim E, et al.My baby body: A qualitative insight into women's body-related experiences and mood during pregnancy and the postpartum.Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. 2009;27 (4): 330-335.
12. Colls R.Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'fat'.Geoforum. 2007;38 (2): 353-365.
13. Coomber K,King RM.The role of sisters in body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating.Sex Roles. 2008;59(1-2):81-93.
14. Crossley N.Fat is a sociological issue: Obesity rates in late modern, 'body-conscious' societies.Social Theory and Health. 2004;2 (3): 222-253.
15. Degher D,Hughes GInterpreting Weight: The Social Management of Fatness and Thinness. Sobal JMaurer D, ed. New York: Aldine; 1999:11-28.
16. Draper J.Blurring, moving and broken boundaries: Men's encounters with the pregnant body.Sociology of Health & Illness. 2003;25 (7): 743-767.
17. Earle S.Bumps and boobs: Fatness and women's experiences of pregnancy.Women's Studies International Forum. 2003;26 (3): 245-252.
18. Evans B,Colls R.Measuring fatness, governing bodies: The spatialities of the body mass index (BMI) in anti-obesity politics.Antipode. 2009;41 (5): 1051-1083.
19. Hanson CA Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture, 1750-2000. London: Palgrave Macmillan; 2004:.
20. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (2008) Reexamination of IOM pregnancy guidelines. Available at: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3788/48191.aspx (accessed 21 February 2011).
21. Irigaray LThe Sex Which Is Not One. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; 1995:.
22. Johnson JWC,Yancey MK.A critique of the new recommendations for weight gain in pregnancy.American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1996;174 (1): 254-258.
23. Kristeva JDesire and Language. New York: Columbia University Press; 1980:.
24. Laqueur TMaking Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 1990:.
25. Longhurst REmbodied Geographies: Spaces, Bodies and Rites of Passage. Teather EK, ed. London: Routledge; 1999:78-90.
26. Longhurst RContested Bodies. Holliday RHassard J, ed. London: Routledge; 2001:81-94.
27. Malson HBody Talk: The Material and Discursive Regulation of Sexuality, Madness and Reproduction. Ussher J, ed. London: Routledge; 1997:223-245.
28. Monaghan LFBody/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Waskul DVannini P, ed. Burlington, VT: Ashgate; 2006:125-140.
29. Murray S.Pathologizing 'fatness': Medical authority and popular culture.Sociology of Sport Journal. 2008;25 (1): 7-21.
30. Nash M.Oh baby baby: (Un)veiling Britney Spears' pregnant body.Michigan Feminist Studies. 2006;19:27-50.
31. Nash M (2008a) Yummy mummies, baby bumps and body image: Shaping 'postmodern' pregnancy in Melbourne, Australia. Phd Thesis, University of Melbourne
32. Nash MThe Globetrotting Shopaholic: Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places. Tunc TBabic A, ed. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 2008b:205-220.
33. Nash M.'You don't train for a marathon by sitting on the couch': Performances of pregnancy 'fitness' and 'good' motherhood in Melbourne, Australia.Women's Studies International Forum. 2011;34 (2): 50-65.
34. Nash M (2012) Brides n' bumps: A critical look at bridal pregnancy identities, maternity wedding dresses and post-feminism. Feminist Media Studies. DOI: 10.1080/14680777. 2012.678877.
35. Nichter MFat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say About Dieting. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; 2000:.
36. Oakley AThe Captured Womb: A History of the Medical Care of Pregnant Women. Oxford: Basil Blackwell; 1984:.
37. Probyn E.Silence behind the mantra: Critiquing feminist fat.Feminism and Psychology. 2008;18 (3): 401-404.
38. Rice C.Becoming the 'fat' girl: Acquisition of an unfit identity.Women's Studies International Forum. 2007;30 (2): 158-174.
39. Richardson P.Women's experience of body change during normal pregnancy.Maternal and Child Nursing Journal. 1990;19 (2): 93-111.
40. Rieves L,Cash TF.Social developmental factors and women's body image attitudes.Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. 1996;11 (1): 63-78.
41. Scott-Dixon K.Big girls don't cry: Fitness, fatness and the production of feminist knowledge.Sociology of Sport Journal. 2008;25 (1): 22-47.
42. Shildrick MLeaky Bodies and Boundaries. New York: Routledge; 1997:.
43. Skouteris H,Carr R,Wertheim EH, et al.A prospective study of factors that lead to body dissatisfaction during pregnancy.Body Image. 2005;2 (4): 347-361.
44. Squier SLiminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press; 2004:.
45. Tiggemann M.Body image across the adult life span: Stability and change.Body Image. 2004;1 (1): 29-41.
46. Tsiantas G,King RM.Similarities in body image in sisters: The role of sociocultural internalization and social comparison.Eating Disorders. 2001;9 (2): 141-158.
47. Tyler ITransformations: Thinking Through Feminism. Ahmed SKilby JLury CMcNeil MSkeggs B, ed. London: Routledge; 2000:288-302.
48. Ussher JManaging the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body. London: Routledge; 2006:.
49. van Gennep AThe Rites of Passage. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press; 1960:.
50. Warin M,Turner K,Moore V, et al.Bodies, mothers and identities: Rethinking obesity and the BMI.Sociology of Health and Illness. 2008;30 (1): 97-111.
51. Warin M,Moore V,Davies MFatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy. Unnithan-Kumar MTremayne S, ed. Oxford: Berghahn Books; 2011a:22-42.
52. Warin M,Moore V,Zivkovic T, et al.Telescoping the origins of obesity to women's bodies: How gender inequalities are being squeezed out of Barker's hypothesis.Annals of Human Biology. 2011b;38 (4): 453-460.
53. Wiles RWomen and Health: Feminist Perspectives. Wilkinson SKitzinger C, ed. London: Taylor and Francis; 1994:33-48.
54. Young IMThrowing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press; 1990:.