Pregnancy in Practice : : Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US / / Sallie Han.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Han, Sallie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (206 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; List of Illustrations --; Introduction. Ordinary Pregnancy --; Chapter One. Pregnancy as a Literacy Event --; Chapter Two. Protoconversations of the Heart --; Chapter Three. Seeing Like a Family, Looking Like a Baby --; Chapter Four. “This Body Is No Longer My Own” --; Chapter Five. Making Rooms for Babies --; Chapter Six. Consumption and Communitas --; Conclusion. Postpartum --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857459886; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857459886
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Sallie Han.

Babies are not simply born—they are made through cultural and social practices. Based on rich empirical work, this book examines the everyday experiences that mark pregnancy in the US today, such as reading pregnancy advice books, showing ultrasound “baby pictures” to friends and co-workers, and decorating the nursery in anticipation of the new arrival. These ordinary practices of pregnancy, the author argues, are significant and revealing creative activities that produce babies. They are the activities through which babies are made important and meaningful in the lives of the women and men awaiting the child’s birth. This book brings into focus a topic that has been overlooked in the scholarship on reproduction and will be of interest to professionals and expectant parents alike.