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Veröffentlichung:	November 2025
Genre:	Sprache
	Gender studies, gender groups / Health psychology / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General / Medical Sociology / Semantics, discourse analysis, etc / Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics / Sexually transmitted infections / Venereal diseases / Venereal Diseases
ISBN:	9781009633871
EAN-Code:	9781009633871
Verlag:	Cambridge Academic
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H / B / D
Gewicht:	268 gr
Illustration:	Worked examples or Exercises
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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.