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- Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
summary
Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different culturesùJapan and Israelùboth of which medicalize pregnancy. Tsipy Ivry focuses on "low-risk" or "normal" pregnancies, using cultural comparison to explore the complex relations among ethnic ideas about procreation, local reproductive politics, medical models of pregnancy care, and local modes of maternal agency.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- PART ONE: The Doctoring of Pregnancy
- PART TWO: Experiencing Pregnancy
- 3: The Path of Bonding
- pp. 123-184
- 4: The Path of Ambiguity
- pp. 185-228
- PART THREE: Embodying Culture: Toward an Anthropology of Pregnancy
- 5: Juxtapositions
- pp. 231-256
- 6: Pregnant with Meaning
- pp. 257-263
- Bibliography
- pp. 275-286
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813548302
Related ISBN(s)
9780813546353
MARC Record
OCLC
593295659
Pages
312
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No