The zero trimester
Subtitle: pre-pregnancy care and the politics of reproductive risk
By: Miranda R. Waggoner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780520288065; 9780520288072
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Women's health services; Public health; Reproductive health; Complications; Pregnancy; Women; Health risk assessment
Description: "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 such an approach improves maternal and child health. 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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-250) and index.
Table of contents: title: Someday, now: preconceiving risk and maternal responsibility; title: From the womb to the woman: the shifting locus of reproductive risk; title: Anticipating risky bodies: making sense of future reproductive risk; title: Whither women's health? reproductive politics and the legacy of maternalism; title: Get a reproductive life plan! producing the zero trimester; title: Promoting maternal visions: gender, race, and future baby love; title: Governing risk, governing women: anticipatory motherhood and social order.