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Fatness and the Maternal Body

Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
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Description

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.

Author Biography:

Maya Unnithan-Kumar is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. She is currently leading an Economic and Social Research Council (UK)–funded research project on state-NGO relations as defined by their engagement with human rights discourse in the fields of sexual, maternal and reproductive health in India.
Release date NZ
July 1st, 2011
Audience
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Contributors
  • Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
  • Edited by Soraya Tremayne
Pages
246
Dimensions
152x229x15
ISBN-13
9780857451224
Product ID
10382490

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