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Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 05 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374480-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7448-0
... This chapter examines the explanatory functions and lapses of the maternal mortality ratio, the most commonly used maternal health indicator. Unlike people, metrics can be tracked, graphed, compared across time and space, converted to dollars, inserted into equations, and statistically...
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 05 March 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374480-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7448-0
... This chapter explores the relationships between political practices and evidence making in maternal health in Nigeria’s efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals. Many actors become invested in the exercises of counting maternal outcomes and making decisions about care that will impact...
Published: 15 April 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375449-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7544-9
... Epigenetics, the study of how experiences, environments, and exposures alter gene expression, is a vibrant new area of postgenomic life sciences research. Epigenetics research situates the maternal body as a central site of epigenetic programming and transmission, and as a significant locus...
Published: 09 October 2000
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380252-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8025-2
Published: 20 February 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380276-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8027-6
Book Chapter

By Diane P. Freedman, Sara Ruddick, Olivia Frey
Published: 01 January 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384960-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8496-0
Series: New Americanists
Published: 30 June 1994
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382645-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8264-5
Series: New Americanists
Published: 01 January 1993
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382232-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8223-2
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 01 January 1991
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382829-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8282-9
Book Chapter

By Dubravka Žarkov
Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Published: 13 August 2007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9018-3
...The Maternal Body ...
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
Published: 13 September 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388609-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8860-9
Published: 23 March 2012
DOI: 10.1215/9780822395270-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9527-0
Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
Published: 18 June 2003
DOI: 10.1215/9780822384359-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8435-9
Book Chapter

By Janelle Lamoreaux
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
Published: 01 January 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478023975-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2397-5
Published: 29 November 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060321-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6032-1
... and space, this chapter focuses on the “maternal feminine” and the home-space as sites of queer-feminist possibility. It engages with the genre of “memory-work” and examines the artists’ affective and haptic relationship to family photoarchives. Contextualizing his mother’s photoarchive within the immediate...
Book Chapter

By Kimberly Juanita Brown
Published: 31 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375418-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7541-8
... Chapter 2 interrogates the fraught terrain of black women’s reproductive bodies and the slave system that sought to exploit sexuality in the service of labor production. In this chapter the author argues that processes of black maternal longing limit the ability of black women to self-possess...
Published: 19 March 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478013167-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-1316-7
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060727-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6072-7
.... These family practices thus exist as maternal supplements to the state’s community mental health interventions and their biopolitical paternalism. community mental health covert medication home confinement maternal labor supplementation ...
Published: 30 July 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021728-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2172-8
Published: 30 July 2021
DOI: 10.1215/9781478021728-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2172-8