36.3568, Books: Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss: Malory (2025)

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Subject: 36.3568, Books: Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss: Malory (2025)

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Date: 18-Nov-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss: Malory (2025)


Title: Language, Gender and Pregnancy Loss
Series Title: Elements in Language, Gender and Sexuality
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/language-gender-and-pregnancy-loss?format=PB&isbn=9781009633895

Author(s): Beth Malory

Hardback ISBN:  9781009633871 Pages:  90 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009633871 Pages:  90 Price: Europe EURO 64.19
Hardback ISBN:  9781009633871 Pages:  90 Price: U.S. $ 70.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009633895 Pages:  90 Price: U.K. £ 18.00
Paperback ISBN:  9781009633895 Pages:  90 Price: Europe EURO 21.01
Paperback ISBN:  9781009633895 Pages:  90 Price: U.S. $ 23.00

Abstract:

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.

Written In: English (eng)



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