‘I don't think it was such an issue back then’: changing experiences of pregnancy across two generations of women in south-east England

Fox, Rebekah Tweed; Heffernan, Kristin; Nicolson, Paula

doi:10.1080/09663690903148424

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“…Conversely, McRobbie (2009) argues that the fun-loving ladette retains credibility so long as her performance of masculinity does not challenge the realms of heteropatriarchy. Furthermore, Fox et al (2009) discusses how the drinking maternal body is conceived as a site of heightened biomedical and social concern through the legal construction of the foetus as a person with rights and the medical construction of the foetus as a patient. Important insights for this article are generated by the ways in which the intoxicated body is shaped as an 'object-target' for power and employed as an instrument to reflect and sustain gendered social difference through discourses of respectability, femininity and motherhood, cross-cut by age, class and ethnicity (Jayne et al 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Intersecting themes of risk and respectability emerge in the social science literature that explores the moral, medical, political and social dimensions of women who drink. For example, Waterson (1996), Ettore (1997) and Fox et al (2009) discuss the historical weight of ideas that align white middle-class feminine respectability, motherhood, maternal love, temperance, virtue and bodily control. Likewise, Day et al (2004) and Jackson and Tinkler (2007) discuss the emergence of the figure of the 'ladette' as a symbol of a degraded femininity in media discourses which mimic the competitive sociability of masculine drinking bodies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Such an account of alcohol undermines the ontological conventions that inform most public health and social science thinking that is reliant on the distinction between biology/technology, inside/outside and subject/object. What interests us is how a posthuman account of alcohol offers possibilities to revisit the prescriptive social determinants of health model (Fox 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Waitt

Clement

2015

Gender, Place & Culture

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Gender is a key lens for interpreting meanings and practices of drinking. In response to the overwhelming amount of social and medical alcohol studies that focus on what extent people conform to norms of healthy drinking, this article extends critical feminist geographical engagement with assemblage thinking to explore how the technologies of biopower covertly materialised as bodily habits may be preserved and challenged. We suggest an embodied engagement with alcohol to help think through the gendered practices and spatial imaginaries of rural drinking life. Our account draws on interviews with women of different cohort generations with Anglo-Celtic ancestry living in a country town in Victoria, Australia. Three vignettes based around emergent themes of maternal, domicile and socialising bodies help shed light on the contradictory ways gender is lived through the dynamics of alcohol consumption which help constitute everyday life in a country town.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

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Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Waitt

Clement

2015

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“…Concealing the pregnant body in the workplace has been described elsewhere [33] [36], as well as the expectation held by some people to hide the pregnant body in general [32] [37] [38].…”

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Experiences of Low Gestational Weight Gain: A Phenomenological Study with Pregnant Women

Murray

Conroy²

2014

Health

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Low maternal, gestational weight gain is associated with preterm birth, intrauterine growth restriction, low birthweight, small-for-gestational-age infants, neural tube defects, infant death, failure to initiate breastfeeding, and childhood asthma. The advantage of qualitative research is it can provide valuable insights for health care professionals into the experience and perceptions of low gestational weight gain from the vantage point of women with first-hand lived experience. In this Heideggarian interpretive phenomenological study, the meaning and experiences of weight gain for pregnant women with low gestational weight gain were explored. Data were collected through interviews with 10 pregnant women from Atlantic Canada. Conroy's pathway for interpretive phenomenology was utilized. A hermeneutical spiral of interpretation identified six patterns or major themes: confronting one's mortality; defending oneself against a permanent metamorphosis into a stranger; playing with fire and brimstone; slipping under the radar; trying to find peace; and riding an emotional roller coaster. The findings point to a war that is being waged over pregnant bodies with respect to weight that leaves pregnant women fending for themselves, apparently with little help from their health care providers. Implications of the findings for health practice, education, and research are discussed.

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“…Stotland and colleagues [69] and Chang et al [70] discussed measures to overcome barriers to effective weight gain counseling. The idea of a "license to eat" in pregnancy, which surfaced in this research, has been cited in other publications [71] and might be related to the relaxation of weight expectations during pregnancy in former years [15] [16] [72] [73] and normative constructions of the "good" mother, who deserves pampering during pregnancy [74].…”

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“It’s a Wild Ride”: A Phenomenological Exploration of High Maternal, Gestational Weight Gain

Murray¹

2014

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High maternal, gestational weight gain is associated with high birthweight, large-for-gestationalage birthweights, cesarean delivery, child overweight, and short-and long-term postpartum weight retention. In this phenomenological study, the meaning and experiences of weight gain for pregnant women with high gestational weight gain were investigated. Data were collected through interviews with pregnant women from Atlantic Canada. van Manen's method of phenomenology was utilized. The data analysis revealed four patterns or major themes: being caught off guard; losing your bearings; hanging on for dear life; and hoping for health. The participants experienced their gestational weight gain as an unexpected "wild ride" that they could not control. The findings highlight the need for health care professionals to provide pregnant women with more support concerning gestational weight gain.

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‘I don't think it was such an issue back then’: changing experiences of pregnancy across two generations of women in south-east England

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Women drinking alcohol: assembling a perspective from a Victorian country town, Australia

Experiences of Low Gestational Weight Gain: A Phenomenological Study with Pregnant Women

“It’s a Wild Ride”: A Phenomenological Exploration of High Maternal, Gestational Weight Gain

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