Rationalising pregnancy myths : a study of expectant mothers in Singapore.

• Main Author: Tan, Lin Li.
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Sociology::Family, marriage and women
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/17158
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study seeks to explore how expectant mothers reconcile between science and myth. Using Barthes’ concept of myths and Prokhovnik’s discussion of rational woman, I will study the relationship between scientific rationality as the representation of modern knowledge and pregnancy myths as the repre...