What is it about?
The effects of fat shaming on pregnant women which makes them undertake a range of activities trying to achieve a healthy pregnancy but which, ultimately, are harmful.
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Why is it important?
In the context of growing concern about the health and service impacts of maternal obesity, fat pregnant people are being targeted with weight-based interventions. This article shows that not only are they not effective, but are actually harmful.
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This page is a summary of: Productive but not constructive: The work of shame in the affective governance of fat Pregnancy, Feminism & Psychology, May 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959353519834053.
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