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Language, Gender, and Pregnancy Loss

By Beth Malory

Language, Gender, and Pregnancy Loss

By Beth Malory

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This Element explores the gendered dimensions of the ways language used to describe, define, and diagnose pregnancy loss impacts experiences of receiving and delivering healthcare in a UK context. It situates experiences of pregnancy loss language against the backdrop of gender role expectations, ideological tensions around reproductive choice, and medical misogyny; asking how language both reflects and influences contemporary gender norms and understandings of maternal responsibility. To do this, the Element analyses 10 focus group transcripts from metalinguistic discussions with 42 lived experience and healthcare professional participants, and 202 written metalinguistic contributions from the same cohorts. It demonstrates the gendered social and symbolic meanings of diagnostic terminology such as miscarriage, incompetent cervix, and termination or abortion in the context of a wanted pregnancy, as well as clinical discourses, on the experience of pregnancy loss and subsequent recovery and wellbeing. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Product details
Number of Pages:
90
Release Date:
2025-11-30
Publication Date:
2025-10-20
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1009633872
ISBN13:
9781009633871
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
294 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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