Pregnancy in practice :

Han, Sallie.

Pregnancy in practice : expectation and experience in the contemporary US / Sallie Han. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 25 .

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.

9780857459886 (e-book)


Pregnancy--United States.
Fertility--United States.


Electronic books.

RG940 / .H36 2013

362.1982