Embodied Geographies

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Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather
Routledge, Jun 23, 2005 - Science - 288 pages

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.

 

Contents

geographies of personal diseovery
1
The expanding worlds of middle ehildhood
15
eoded
43
a study
59
giving adviee
78
spaees and experienees of ehildbirth
91
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