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Book SynopsisA healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy even begins. This book examines the dramatic shift in ideas about reproductive risk and birth outcomes over the last several decades, unearthing how these ideas intersect with the politics of women's health and motherhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Trade Review“A sophisticated study not only of a new medical trend, but also of a contemporary result of a century-old construction of modern pregnancy, modern motherhood and women’s health care.” * Social History of Medicine *
"Waggoner’s analysis is clear, compelling, and richly documented." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *
"The findings of
The Zero Trimester are particularly relevant to the recent upsurge of attention to maternal and infant deaths and near-deaths." * Social Forces *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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