On the Altered Appetites of Pregnancy: Conceptions of Food, Body and Person

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Ethnographic interview data recording the experience of alterations in appetite in pregnancy, notably aversions to and cravings for food are reported. These data are interpreted in the light of symbolic interactionist insights into the process of self-indication, the process whereby people's sense of self and identity entails the attribution of meaning to the world in which they find themselves, a world that includes their own bodily self. Aversions appear unequivocally identifiable, but doubts arise about cravings – doubts that are conceptualised with reference to a sense of body, of self and conception of moral worth.

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