Pregnancy in practice : expectation and experience in the contemporary US / Sallie Han.
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TextSeries: Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 25Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pregnancy as a literacy event -- Protoconversations of the heart : belly talk -- Seeing like a family, looking like a baby : fetal ultrasound imaging -- "This body is no longer my own" -- Making rooms for babies : houses, nurseries, and baby things -- Consumption and communitas : baby showers.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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"Babies (and mothers) are not simply born. They are made through cultural and social practices and the experiences of everyday life," writes anthropologist Han (SUNY Oneonta) in her revised dissertation, an ethnographic account of "ordinary" pregnancy. The author considers the importance and meaning of "everyday experiences" through six thematic chapters organized chronologically throughout the pregnancy and birth experience. Topics include reading books on pregnancy, viewing and sharing ultrasound images of the fetus, planning the baby's nursery, baby showers, and more. Han constructs her argument by drawing on interviews with pregnant women and their friends, family, and partners, and birth professionals in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In addition to conducting personal interviews, Han observed office visits and childbirth education classes, and she even completed a doula training course. Based on this ethnographic research, Han describes routine pregnancies of American middle-class women, essentially reorienting anthropological study of birth and reproduction, which previously focused on the medical and technical aspects of giving birth. Summing Up: Recommended. All academic and professional health sciences and anthropology collections. M. L. Charleroy University of MinnesotaThere are no comments on this title.