The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk by

Description: The Zero Trimester by Miranda R. Waggoner A 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 womens health and motherhood at the beginning of the twenty-first century. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the United States, a healthy pregnancy is now defined well before pregnancy begins. Public health messages encourage women of reproductive age to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction—even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Some experts believe that this pre-pregnancy care model will reduce risk and ensure better birth outcomes than the prenatal care model. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control womens bodies. The Zero Trimester explores why the task of perfecting pregnancies now takes up a womans entire reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Miranda R. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester rose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of womens lives in the twenty-first century. Waggoner argues that the emergence of the zero trimester is not simply related to medical and health concerns; it also reflects the power of culture and social ideologies to shape both population health imperatives and womens bodily experiences. Flap "This meticulously researched and beautifully written book not only reveals the deep roots of the modern idea of the zero trimester, but also makes clear the paradoxical consequences of anticipatory motherhood for women and infants, reproductive justice and gender equality. Sociologists, historians, and women themselves owe Miranda R. Waggoner a debt of gratitude for this lucid, engaging ethnography of the idea of pre-pregnancy that examines what it really means to imagine all women as mothers all the time."--Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Princeton University "Steeped in the history of womens health and reproductive politics, The Zero Trimester breaks new ground in exposing deeply rooted assumptions about women as mothers in the new public health focus on pre-pregnancy. This well-written book will be essential reading for anyone interested in gender, medicine, and health policy."--Rene Almeling, Yale University, author of Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm "Miranda Waggoner provides a compelling and important account of the rise of pre-pregnancy medical care and the deeply troubling consequences of the concomitant creation of the zero trimester. In the medical and cultural quest for perfect pregnancies and perfect babies, we have arrived at a place wherein all females are considered future pregnant women who are advised to reside within a medical-behavioral regime in order to protect fetuses and babies that do not yet exist and may not exist for years or decades to come (if at all). As one medical expert explains, the zero trimester begins the moment a future woman is herself conceived! The implications of pre-pregnancy care, should it become fully entrenched, are thus a vast expansion in the medical and social control of womens behaviors and their bodies over the life course. And yet this new regime of social control does not emerge from advances in medical knowledge. Instead it is propped up largely by common sense and longstanding and limiting gender assumptions. As Waggoner warns us, anticipatory motherhood is a brave new world that has in part already arrived."--Kristin K. Barker, author of The Fibromyalgia Story "Who knew pregnancy lasts for twelve months? Miranda Waggoner traces how pregnancy in the United States has become a twelve-month status for women. Looking back to the nineteenth century and forward to the present she shows how and why the zero trimester has been added on to the beginning of pregnancy and has become an institutionalized part of womens reproductive health and health care in the twenty-first century."--Susan E. Bell, author of DES Daughters: Embodied Knowledge and the Transformation of Womens Health Politics "Miranda Waggoner has produced a sharp and compelling study of the rise of preconception care, one attentive to historical context, institutional agendas, and shifting definitions of motherhood. Her notion of the zero trimester is a useful addition to our collective knowledge about reproductive health and the production and management of risk." --Monica J. Casper, Professor of Gender and Womens Studies and Professor of Public Health, University of Arizona Author Biography Miranda R. Waggoner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida State University. Table of Contents Acknowledgments 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 Womens 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 Notes Bibliography Index 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 womens health care." * Social History of Medicine *"Waggoners 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 * Review Quote "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 womens health care." Details ISBN0520288068 Year 2017 ISBN-10 0520288068 ISBN-13 9780520288065 Format Hardcover Language English Media Book Short Title ZERO TRIMESTER Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.8743 Pages 280 Illustrations 2 line drawings and 3 halftone Author Miranda R. Waggoner Publication Date 2017-09-12 UK Release Date 2017-09-12 AU Release Date 2017-09-12 NZ Release Date 2017-09-12 US Release Date 2017-09-12 Publisher University of California Press Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159742143;

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