The Zero Trimester (eBook)

Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk

Miranda R. Waggoner (Autor)

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2017
280 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96311-5 (ISBN)

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In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproductioneven when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy care model will reduce risk and ensure better birth outcomes than the prenatal care model. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women's bodies. The Zero Trimesterexplores why the task of perfecting pregnancies now takes up a woman's entire reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Miranda R. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester rose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women's lives in the twenty-first century. Waggoner argues that the emergence of the zero trimester is not simply related to medical and health concerns; it also reflects the power of culture and social ideologies to shape both population health imperatives and women's bodily experiences.

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Acknowledgments

1. Someday, Now: Preconceiving Risk and Maternal Responsibility
2. From the Womb to the Woman: The Shifting Locus of Reproductive Risk
3. Anticipating Risky Bodies: Making Sense of Future Reproductive Risk
4. Whither Women’s Health? Reproductive Politics and the Legacy of Maternalism
5. Get a Reproductive Life Plan! Producing the Zero Trimester
6. Promoting Maternal Visions: Gender, Race, and Future Baby Love
7. Governing Risk, Governing Women: Anticipatory Motherhood and Social Order

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: 21st century reproduction • american womens health • better birth • better prenatal • disciplining womens bodies • Gender Studies • healthy pregnancy • healthy reproduction • Maternity • medical care prior to pregnancy • politics of reproductions • politics of womens health • Public Health • reproduction in the us • Reproductive Freedom • Reproductive Health • reproductive politics • Womens Bodies • womens health • womens health and hygiene • womens issues • womens studies
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96311-3 / 0520963113
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96311-5 / 9780520963115