... Perspectives on Obesity and Health: Black and White, or Shades of Gray. International Journal of Epidemiology 35 : 69 -72. Blum, L. M. 1999 . At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States . Boston: Beacon. Buchanan, D. R., and L. Wallack. 1998...

... to “Is Breast Really Best? Risk and Total Motherhood in the National Breast-Feeding Awareness Campaign” Judy M. Hopkinson Baylor College of Medicine The commentary will focus on Joan Wolf’s literature review of the studies...

...Richard A. Weatherley Books 635 Elaine Bell Kaplan. Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Teenage Motherhood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 254 pages. $45.00 cloth; $15.95 paper. As the research on adolescent...

...Sally S. Cohen Wolf Joan B. . Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood . New York : New York University Press , 2011 . 241 pp. $29.95 cloth. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Berry M. F. 1993...

... and address systemic problems in health care access and health disparities. By changing the terms of pregnancy risk and by using maternalism as a social policy strategy, the preconception health and health care paradigm promoted an ethic of anticipatory motherhood and conflated women's health with maternal...

...Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Duke University Press 2010 Books...

...-three percent of the legislation listed abortion as banned, whereas the remaining laws implied abortion within the terms “elective” or “nonessential.” Legislation used common antiabortion tactics, such as the trivialization of abortion, risk discourses, and constructions of motherhood and fetal...

...Deborah A. Stone The politics of preventive health care have changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, prevention was the motherhood issue of health care reform. With only the slightest glimmer of controversy, vaccination, promotion of lifestyle changes...

... impede its resolution. Most of the activists are women; but, notwithstanding feminine and feminist images, they appear to share no common premises and no common language. Both Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and Ideology and Abortion Policy Politics offer explanations of the debate...

.... The majority of the article examines the relationship between public health, notions of risk, and an ideology of total motherhood, a discussion Hopkinson identifies as “ancillary” and therefore addresses only marginally. In focusing her commentary largely on lactation research, Hopkinson disregards my...

... Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood. New York: New York Uni- versity Press, 2011. 241 pp. $29.95 cloth. The March 22, 2004, cover of Time featured a photo of a preschool boy gazing up adoringly at his mother as he hugged her. The photo heralded the issue’s feature story, “The Case...

...? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood. New York: New York Uni- versity Press, 2011. 241 pp. $29.95 cloth. The March 22, 2004, cover of Time featured a photo of a preschool boy gazing up adoringly at his mother as he hugged her. The photo heralded the issue’s...

.... DOI 10.1215/03616878-2009-043 134 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Repro- duction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper...

... Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Repro- duction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 272 pp. $65.00 cloth; $25.95 paper. Every year there are over 4 million births in the United States; around one thousand of them are the result of surrogacy arrangements...

... liberation from traditional motherhood, whereas Barbara Berg underscores the importance of traditional motherhood by focusing on the deprivations experienced by infertile individuals who are unable ever to experience genetic parenthood, pregnancy, or childbirth. Part 1 places reproductive decision...

..., DC: National Academies Press. DOI 10.1215/03616878-2009-043 134 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Review Susan Markens. Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Repro- duction. Berkeley...

... of Commercial Surrogate Motherhood: Brave New Families. Scott B. Rae. Westport, Praeger Publishers, 1993. 200 pp. $49.95 cloth. Genes and Human Self-Knowledge. Robert F. Weir, Susan C. Lawrence. and Evan Fales. eds. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994. 268 pp. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper...

... context, turning the feminist discussion of motherhood on to daughter- hood. Abel delineates the relation between what appear to be individual choices and what are in fact roles dictated by social structures, role ex- pectations, and economic factors. Original in its critique of the literature...

.... Not Our Kind of Girl: Unraveling the Myths of Black Teenage Motherhood. Elaine Bell Kaplan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 254 pp. $15.95 paper. Public and Environmental Health Science with a Human Face: In Honor of Roger Randall Revelle. Robert Dorfman and Peter P. Rogers, eds...

..., Ethnicity, and Other Social Factors. Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, ed. Dulles, VA: Emerald Books, 2010. 299 pp. $134.95 cloth. Gender Studies Is Breast Best? Taking on the Breastfeeding Experts and the New High Stakes of Motherhood. Joan B. Wolf. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 241 pp...