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.
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.
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
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
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