SOCB51H3 Lecture : Week Seven - Fox, heffernan, nicolson.docx

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22 Apr 2012
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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. Such recommendations can be set in the context of ever increasing medicalization of motherhood during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Women are simultaneously subjected to new and expanding forms of insidious social control". We examine the ways in which experiences of pregnancy have changed over the 20th century. Pregnancy is no longer seen as something to cover up but can now be almost regarded as a fashion accessory for the new generation of celebrity mums: pregnant and fashionable. We consider the ways in which these various changes have affected the lives of pregnant women across two generations, drawing upon the experience of mothers and daughters from specific cultural groups in south east england. Those interviewed were all heterosexual, white and mainly middle class, and hence cannot be seen to speak for the experiences of all pregnant women.

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