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Pregnancy in Practice : Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US / Sallie Han.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 25Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857459879
  • 9780857459886
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  • 362.1982 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. Ordinary Pregnancy -- Chapter One. Pregnancy as a Literacy Event -- Chapter Two. Protoconversations of the Heart -- Chapter Three. Seeing Like a Family, Looking Like a Baby -- Chapter Four. “This Body Is No Longer My Own” -- Chapter Five. Making Rooms for Babies -- Chapter Six. Consumption and Communitas -- Conclusion. Postpartum -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers, and decorating the nursery in anticipation of the new arrival. These ordinary practices of pregnancy, the author argues, are significant and revealing creative activities that produce babies. They are the activities through which babies are made important and meaningful in the lives of the women and men awaiting the child’s birth. This book brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction and will be of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction. Ordinary Pregnancy -- Chapter One. Pregnancy as a Literacy Event -- Chapter Two. Protoconversations of the Heart -- Chapter Three. Seeing Like a Family, Looking Like a Baby -- Chapter Four. “This Body Is No Longer My Own” -- Chapter Five. Making Rooms for Babies -- Chapter Six. Consumption and Communitas -- Conclusion. Postpartum -- Bibliography -- Index

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Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers, and decorating the nursery in anticipation of the new arrival. These ordinary practices of pregnancy, the author argues, are significant and revealing creative activities that produce babies. They are the activities through which babies are made important and meaningful in the lives of the women and men awaiting the child’s birth. This book brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction and will be of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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