Embodied Geographies / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415184403
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/22/1999
Series:	Critical Geographies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather

Table of Contents

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