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'Fat, bland, boring incubators': ordinary pregnant women don't feel like Beyoncé

  • Written by Meredith Nash, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Tasmania
imageThe emotional and physical experiences of fatigue, stress, anxiety, and isolation are almost never seen in the popular images of pregnancy. reebob/flickr , CC BY-NC

Stop the presses, Beyoncé is pregnant.

For a brief moment last week, the headlines shifted from Trump to the “Queen Bey”, who dropped the news of her twin pregnancy...

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