Bearing the weight of the world Exploring Maternal Embodiment

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Bearing the weight of the world Exploring Maternal Embodiment is written by Alys Einion and published by Demeter Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1772582018 (ISBN 10) and 9781772582017 (ISBN 13).

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.