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The reproduction of inequality : how class shapes the pregnant body and infant health / Katherine Mason.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, Katherine, author.
- Series:
- Health, society, and inequality.
- NYU Press scholarship online.
- Health, society, and inequality
- NYU Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood--Social aspects.
- Motherhood.
- Pregnancy--Social aspects.
- Pregnancy.
- Childbirth--Social aspects.
- Childbirth.
- Social status--Health aspects.
- Social status.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Equality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- This volume examines the intense social pressure that expectant and new mothers face when it comes to their health and body-care choices. Drawing on interviews with dozens of pregnant women and new mothers from poor, middle-class, and mixed-class backgrounds, Katherine Mason paints a vivid picture of the immense weight of expectation that comes with the early stages of motherhood. The women in Mason's study universally sought to give their children a healthy start in life; however, their chosen approaches varied based on their socio-economic class.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Maternal Embodiment: How Reproductive Body Projects Work
- 2. The Gender of Wellness: The Labor of Body Care Falls to Mothers
- 3. The Costs of Avoiding Risk: Trust and Accountability
- 4. The Stories Mothers Tell: Class Identity in Women's Body-Care Narratives
- 5. Rigid and Flexible Agency: Navigating Bodily Change and Unpredictability
- 6. Care Work as Status Work: The Child's Body as a Site of Social Reproduction
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: List of Interview Subjects
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 29, 2024).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-0190-9
- OCLC:
- 1373342226
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