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Table of contents :
Cover
Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Space
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 A Series of Windows
2 ‘Mum’s the Word’: ‘Coming Out’ as Pregnant at Work
3 (Ad)dressing Pregnant Bodies: Clothing, Fashion, Subjectivities and Spatialities
4 Pregnant and Disabled: ‘Body Troubles’?
5 A Pornography of Birth: Crossing Moral Boundaries
6 At Home with Birth
7 ‘Queer Breastfeeding’: (Im)proper Spaces of Lactation
8 ‘Bad’ Mothers: (Re)presentations of Lack
9 Clubmom.com: Constructing Maternal Identities in Cyberspace
10 Conclusion: The Contradictory Spaces of Mothering
Appendix: Research Methods
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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