(Re)collections : engaging feminist geography with embodied and relational experiences of pregnancy losses

摘要: With empirically-grounded and theoretically-inferred consideration in this thesis, I bring into focus a vast ‘collection’ of components entailed lived experiences pregnancy losses and, particular, foreground the ways which spaces places are intimately involved. This includes, for example, attending to medical settings such as hospitals, workplaces, homes gardens, online support communities, cemeteries other memorial locations addition bodies simultaneously material emotional. Since inter-personal, also discuss social relations between women, their embryos, foetuses, babies and/or children, staff, partners, family members, friends, work colleagues, group users ‘wider society’. The multiplicity within, across, participants’ serves break apart reassemble label selected research ‘pregnancy losses’. utilise several sub-disciplines across finding particularly significant tricky tension two particular areas wish engage: feminist geographies death dying. My weaves together feminist, embodied, emotional through seek understand losses. In doing so, richness, depth complexity by developing understandings embrace, rather than sanitise or marginalise, bodily materiality well dynamics. My thesis explore recollections loss experiences, organised around number spatial contexts activities. These reflected each chapter terms interior bodies, relations, fluids, sites, external skins practices memorialisation. discussions ‘collect’ about somewhat paradoxical fullness variety accumulated meanings that can be held experiences.