Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Space

Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' including the gendered body, as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity; and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published very little on what must surely be one of, if not the, most important of all bodies - bodies that conceive, give birth and nurture other bodies. This book explores the diversity and complexity of embodied experiences of maternity, illustrating how maternal bodies are constructed through different social, cultural and economic networks, and through different places and spaces.