Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Author:   Sallie Han
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   25
ISBN:  

9781782387923


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Format:   Paperback
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Pregnancy in Practice: Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US


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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.

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Author:   Sallie Han
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   25
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.286kg
ISBN:  

9781782387923


ISBN 10:   1782387927
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 July 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface List of Figures Chapter 1. Introduction: Ordinary Pregnancy Chapter 2. Pregnancy as a Literacy Event Chapter 3. Protoconversations of the Heart: Belly Talk Chapter 4. Seeing Like a Family, Looking Like a Baby: Fetal Ultrasound Imaging Chapter 5. This Body Is No Longer My Own Chapter 6. Making Rooms for Babies: Houses and Nurseries Chapter 7. Consumption and Communitas: Baby Showers Postpartum Bibliography Index

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This book will be central to further discussions in the field of reproduction and birth. It is of interest to students and scholars more broadly in economic and medical Anthropology and in the sociology of the family. * Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale


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Sallie Han is Associate Professor of Anthropology at SUNY College at Oneonta.

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