Controlling the unruly maternal body: Losing and gaining control over the body during pregnancy and the postpartum period

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• 作者：Elena Neiterman^a ; ^{eneiterman@uwaterloo.ca} ; Bonnie Fox^b ; ^{bfox@chass.utoronto.ca}
• 关键词：Canada ; Pregnancy ; Postpartum ; Control ; Women ; Qualitative ; Body ; Motherhood
• 刊名：Social Science & Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：174
• 期：Complete
• 页码：142-148
• 全文大小：251 K
• 卷排序：174

文摘

Pregnant or postpartum bodies may be experienced as out of control, subject to luck. How unruly a pregnant body seems is likely related to how much it changes. Attention to diet and exercise aim at regaining control over the body. These strategies are not always successful at regaining control over the body. Given women's sense of maternal responsibility, unruly body produces sense of guilt.