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SANCTIONING PREGNANCY

Pregnancy provides a very public, visual con®rmation of femininity. It is a

time of rapid physical and psychological adjustment for women and is

surrounded by stereotyping, taboos and social expectations. This book

seeks to examine these popular attitudes towards pregnancy and to

consider how they in¯uence women's experiences of being pregnant.

Sanctioning Pregnancy offers a unique critique of sociocultural construc-

tions of pregnancy and the ways in which it is represented in contemporary

culture, and examines the common myths which exist about diet, exercise

and work in pregnancy, alongside notions of risk and media portrayals of

pregnant women. Topics covered include:

· Do pregnant women change their diet and why?

· Is memory really impaired in pregnancy?

· How risky behaviour is de®ned from exercise to employment

· The biomedical domination of pregnancy research

Different theoretical standpoints are critically examined, including a

medico-scienti®c model, feminist perspectives and bio-psychosocial and

psychodynamic approaches.

Harriet Gross is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Loughborough Uni-

versity. After working in the book trade, she took a degree in psychology

and subsequently became an academic. She is a developmental psychologist,

and researches and publishes in the area of the psychology of pregnancy and

women's health.

Helen Pattison is a Health Psychologist, and Associate Director of Research

in the School of Life and Health Sciences at Aston University. She researches

and publishes in the areas of reproductive health, parental health behaviour,

self-management of health, risk perception and communication.

WOMEN AND PSYCHOLOGY

Series Editor: Jane Ussher

School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney

This series brings together current theory and research on women and

psychology. Drawing on scholarship from a number of different areas of

psychology, it bridges the gap between abstract research and the reality of

women's lives by integrating theory and practice, research and policy.

Each book addresses a `cutting edge' issue of research, covering such

topics as postnatal depression, eating disorders, theories and methodologies.

The series provides accessible and concise accounts of key issues in the

study of women and psychology, and clearly demonstrates the centrality of

psychology to debates within women's studies or feminism.

The Series Editor would be pleased to discuss proposals for new books in

the series.

Other titles in this series:

THE THIN WOMAN

Helen Malson

THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE

Anne E. Walker

POST-NATAL DEPRESSION

Paula Nicolson

RE-THINKING ABORTION

Mary Boyle

WOMEN AND AGING

Linda R. Gannon

BEING MARRIED. DOING GENDER

Caroline Dryden

UNDERSTANDING DEPRESSION

Janet M. Stoppard

FEMININITY AND THE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE WOMAN

Precilla Y.L. Choi

GENDER, LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE

Anne Weatherall

THE SCIENCE/FICTION OF SEX

Annie Potts

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF GIRLS AND

WOMEN

Sheila Greene

JUST SEX?

Nicola Gavey

WOMAN'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HERSELF

Helen O'Grady

GENDER TALK

Susan A. Speer

BEAUTY AND MISOGYNY

Sheila Jeffreys

BODY WORK

Sylvia K. Blood

MANAGING THE MONSTROUS FEMININE

Jane M. Ussher

THE CAPACITY TO CARE

Wendy Hollway

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