Geographies of an expecting body: Spaces and emotions of pregnancy
Abstract
• Pregnancy conceptualised as a geography in its own right. • Autoethnography of two pregnancies and births through journalling. • Home and atmosphere shaped gestation as shelter and constraint. • Ambivalence and pain reconfigured body, space, and time. • Journalling advanced as feminist spatial method.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Geographies of human-animal interactions
Historical Studies on Reproduction
Gender
Health
and Societal Changes
Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Emotion, space and society
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Volume
- 59
- Pages
- 101167–101167
- Publication date
- 3 March 2026
- Language
- EN