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The zero trimester : pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk /

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"A healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy even begins. Public health messages promote pre-pregnancy health and health care by encouraging reproductive-age women to think of themselves as mothers before they think of themselves as women. This happens despite little evidence that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Waggoner, Miranda R. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Reproductive health > 21st century.
Women > Health and hygiene > 21st century.
Pregnancy > Complications > 21st century.
Women's health services > Political aspects > 21st century.
Public health.
Health risk assessment.
Reproductive Health.
Pregnancy Complications.
Reproductive Health Services.
Risk Assessment.
United States.
Ebooks.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Someday, now: preconceiving risk and maternal responsibility
  • From the womb to the woman: the shifting locus of reproductive risk
  • Anticipating risky bodies: making sense of future reproductive risk
  • Whither women's health? reproductive politics and the legacy of maternalism
  • Get a reproductive life plan! producing the zero trimester
  • Promoting maternal visions: gender, race, and future baby love
  • Governing risk, governing women: anticipatory motherhood and social order.