Lara Freidenfelds (independent scholar )

The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy

A History of Miscarriage in America

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Produktbeschreibung

A historical exploration of the history of miscarriage and the development of the current childbearing culture in America, with its expectation of carefully planned, assiduously tended, and emotionally precious pregnancies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780190869816
• ISBN-10: 019086981X
• Artikelnr.: 55474732

Autorenporträt

A historian of health, reproduction, and parenting in America, Lara Freidenfelds is the author of The Modern Period: Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America. She holds a PhD in the history of science from Harvard University and blogs at nursingclio.org and larafreidenfelds.com. She and her family live in New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Childbearing in Colonial America
* Chapter 2: Planning the Baby: Fertility Control from Withdrawal to
the Pill
* Chapter 3: Bonding with the Baby: The Changing Meaning of Parenting
* Chapter 4: Taking Care of the Baby: Prenatal Care at the Doctor's
Office and Elsewhere
* Chapter 5: Buying for the Baby: Marketing, Earlier and Earlier
* Chapter 6: Imagining the Baby: Debating Abortion
* Chapter 7: Seeing the Baby: The Ultrasound Ritual
* Chapter 8: Detecting the Baby: The Home Pregnancy Test
* Conclusion
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Index