The zero trimester : pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk / Miranda R. Waggoner.

Author
Waggoner, Miranda R. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xiii, 259 pages ; 23 cm

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    "A healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy even begins. Public health messages promote pre-pregnancy health and health care by encouraging reproductive-age women to think of themselves as mothers before they think of themselves as women. This happens despite little evidence that such an approach improves maternal and child health. This book examines the dramatic shift in ideas about reproductive risk and birth outcomes over the last several decades, unearthing how these ideas intersect with the politics of women's health and motherhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Someday, now: preconceiving risk and maternal responsibility
    • From the womb to the woman: the shifting locus of reproductive risk
    • Anticipating risky bodies: making sense of future reproductive risk
    • Whither women's health? reproductive politics and the legacy of maternalism
    • Get a reproductive life plan! producing the zero trimester
    • Promoting maternal visions: gender, race, and future baby love
    • Governing risk, governing women: anticipatory motherhood and social order.
    Other title(s)
    The 0 trimester
    ISBN
    • 9780520288065 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0520288068 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
    • 9780520288072 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    • 0520288076 ((paperback ; : alkaline paper))
    LCCN
    2017010811
    OCLC
    978252047
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