MSPH Events

1pm
Room 405B, Level 4, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton

Presented by

Dr Meredith Nash, Centre for Health and Society

Feminist scholars have long argued that the significatory possibilities of women’s bodies/body images in Euro-America and Australia have been constrained by gendered cultural norms that value flat stomachs and slenderness. In this paper, I shall argue that a fixed referent, ‘to not be fat’, underpinned my pregnant informants’ experiences of pregnancy.

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