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- Title: Bearing the weight of the world Exploring Maternal Embodiment
- Author : Alys Einion
- Release Date : January 01, 2018
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3630 KB
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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, idealized, limited, scrutinized, or occupied, whilst dominant discourses limit motherhood through social devaluation. The maternal body has long been a hypervisible artifact: at once bracketed out in the interest of elevating the contributions of sperm-carriers or fetal status; and regarded with hostility and suspicion as out of control. Such arguments are deployed to justify surveillance mechanisms, medical scrutiny, and expectation of self-discipline.