The Zero Trimester : Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk / Miranda R. Waggoner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waggoner, Miranda R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reproductive health--21st century.

Reproductive health.

Women--Health and hygiene--21st century.

Women.

Pregnancy--Complications--21st century.

Pregnancy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction-even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy care model will reduce risk and ensure better birth outcomes than the prenatal care model. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women's bodies. The Zero Trimester explores why the task of perfecting pregnancies now takes up a woman's entire reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Miranda R. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester rose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women's lives in the twenty-first century. Waggoner argues that the emergence of the zero trimester is not simply related to medical and health concerns; it also reflects the power of culture and social ideologies to shape both population health imperatives and women's bodily experiences.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Someday, Now: Preconceiving Risk and Maternal Responsibility

2. From the Womb to the Woman: The Shifting Locus of Reproductive Risk

3. Anticipating Risky Bodies: Making Sense of Future Reproductive Risk

4. Whither Women's Health? Reproductive Politics and the Legacy of Maternalism

5. Get a Reproductive Life Plan! Producing the Zero Trimester

6. Promoting Maternal Visions: Gender, Race, and Future Baby Love

7. Governing Risk, Governing Women: Anticipatory Motherhood and Social Order

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9780520963115

0520963113

OCLC:

978295598