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Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel

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Tsipy Ivry
2010
Published by: Rutgers University Press
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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.

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Frontmatter

Contents

pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Introduction: Pregnancy, Cultural Comparison, Multisited Ethnographies

pp. 1-33

PART ONE: The Doctoring of Pregnancy

1: A Risky Business: Pregnancy in the Eyes of Israeli Ob-Gyns

pp. 37-76

2: The Twofold Structure of Japanese Prenatal Care

pp. 77-120

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

Notes

pp. 265-273

Bibliography

pp. 275-286

Index

pp. 287-298
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