Embodied Geographies

Herausgeber: Kenworthy Teather, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

Embodied Geographies provides a comprehensive account of different types of life crises which develop our identities and affect how we live our lives. Chapters focus on: * pregnancy, childbirth, teenagers and parenthood * migration * the threat and reality of violence * illness and disability * bereavement, the ensuing family responsibilities and death itself. It includes case studies from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9780415184397
• ISBN-10: 0415184398
• Artikelnr.: 21505363

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
1 Introduction: geographies of personal discovery
2 The expanding worlds of middle childhood
3 Messages about adolescent identity: coded and contested spaces in a New York City high school
4 Schoolies Week as a rite of passage: a study of celebration and control
5 Pregnant bodies
public scrutiny: 'giving' advice to pregnant women
6 Bodily speaking: spaces and experiences of childbirth
7 Putting parents in their place: child-rearing rites and gender politics
8 Women's experiences of violence over the life-course
9 Life at the margins: disabled women's explorations of ableist spaces
10 Journeying through M.E.: identity
the body and women with chronic illness
11 Identity and home in the migratory experience of recent Hong Kong Chinese-Canadian migrants
12 Embodying old age
13 The transition into eldercare: an uncelebrated passage
14 Singapore's widows and widowers: back to the heart of the family
15 The body after death: place
tradition and the nation-state in Singapore
Name index
Subject index