The aim of this paper is to present the main discourses controlling a pregnant body – biomedical and aesthetic and their internalisation. The first is related to the medicalization of the body during pregnancy and focuses on its surveillance from a perspective of a child’s health and life.The second, which is described in this paper, concerns the image of female body and the patterns of femininity. The article is based on the in-depth interviews conducted with the pregnant women from 28 to 40 years old. The results of the author’s own study, as well as, the secondary data, reveal that the time of pregnancy does not liberate women from a pressure to embody the ideals of femininity, imposed by other women, physicians and media. Moreover, the ...
Data collected from interviews with mothers and one mother-to-be characterized pregnancy as a time d...
Foi feita uma revisão da literatura sobre gravidez, relacionada com a imagem corporal, com a obesida...
Pregnant women are increasingly engaging with social media as a form of digital leisure. In doing so...
W artykule zaprezentowano, w oparciu o indywidualne wywiady pogłębione, doświadczanie ciężarnego ci...
This thesis presents data gained from qualitative research that took place in Czech Republic from Fe...
W trakcie ciąży w organizmie kobiety zachodzą różnorakie dynamiczne procesy skutkujące zmianą percep...
Reconfiguring the maternal body in visual representation Abstract Over the past decade, representati...
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy provides an interesting challenge to body image theories in that the natural p...
Departing from conventional social science approaches to pregnancy and the pregnant woman’s body th...
This study aims to apprehend the pregnant women’s perception of the physiological changes during pre...
Problem and objective. Body image and its changes during pregnancy are more widely researched in sci...
Author: Zuzana Blažková Institution: Rehab clinic LF UK in Hradec Králové Topic of bachelor's thesis...
During pregnancy there is an evident change in the physical appearance of a woman's body. The most e...
Psychological research into women’s embodied experience in pregnancy and the first year after birth ...
This piece explores the various factors which shape one’s experience of pregnant embodiment: it demo...
Data collected from interviews with mothers and one mother-to-be characterized pregnancy as a time d...
Foi feita uma revisão da literatura sobre gravidez, relacionada com a imagem corporal, com a obesida...
Pregnant women are increasingly engaging with social media as a form of digital leisure. In doing so...
W artykule zaprezentowano, w oparciu o indywidualne wywiady pogłębione, doświadczanie ciężarnego ci...
This thesis presents data gained from qualitative research that took place in Czech Republic from Fe...
W trakcie ciąży w organizmie kobiety zachodzą różnorakie dynamiczne procesy skutkujące zmianą percep...
Reconfiguring the maternal body in visual representation Abstract Over the past decade, representati...
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy provides an interesting challenge to body image theories in that the natural p...
Departing from conventional social science approaches to pregnancy and the pregnant woman’s body th...
This study aims to apprehend the pregnant women’s perception of the physiological changes during pre...
Problem and objective. Body image and its changes during pregnancy are more widely researched in sci...
Author: Zuzana Blažková Institution: Rehab clinic LF UK in Hradec Králové Topic of bachelor's thesis...
During pregnancy there is an evident change in the physical appearance of a woman's body. The most e...
Psychological research into women’s embodied experience in pregnancy and the first year after birth ...
This piece explores the various factors which shape one’s experience of pregnant embodiment: it demo...
Data collected from interviews with mothers and one mother-to-be characterized pregnancy as a time d...
Foi feita uma revisão da literatura sobre gravidez, relacionada com a imagem corporal, com a obesida...
Pregnant women are increasingly engaging with social media as a form of digital leisure. In doing so...