TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han,Sallie
TI  - Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US 
T2  - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
SN  - 9780857459879
U1  - 362.1982 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - United States
KW  - Pregnancy
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Medical Anthropology
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857459886
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857459886
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857459886/original
ER  -