Pregnancy in practice
Subtitle: expectation and experience in the contemporary US
By: Sallie Han
Series: Fertility, reproduction and sexuality -- v. 25; Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality -- v. 25.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780857459879; 9780857459886
Subjects: Pregnancy; Ethnology; Cultural Anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pregnancy as a literacy event; title: Protoconversations of the heart : belly talk; title: Seeing like a family, looking like a baby : fetal ultrasound imaging; title: "This body is no longer my own"; title: Making rooms for babies : houses, nurseries, and baby things; title: Consumption and communitas : baby showers.