Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9780520404434
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0520404432
Content:
"Mal-nutrition documents how maternal health interventions in Guatemala are complicit in reproducing poverty. Policymakers speak about how a critical window of biological growth around the time of pregnancy--called the 'first 1000 days of life'--determines health and wealth across the life course. They argue that fetal development is the key to global development. In this thought-provoking and timely book, Emily Yates-Doerr shows that a focus on prenatal health is a paradigmatic technique of American violence through which the control of mothering serves to control the reproduction of privilege and power. Presenting the powerful stories of Guatemalan scientists, midwives, and mothers, she illustrates their effors to counter the harms of mal-nutrition, offering a window into a form of nutrition science and policy that encourages collective nourishment and fosters reproductive cycles in women, children, and their entire communities can flourish"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Prologue -- Introduction : fetal development as global development -- Reproducing cruelty -- Bio-logics of poverty -- Proxy -- Circles of in/equality -- Gender biolence and the violence of gender -- Window of opportunity -- Historias of co-laboration -- Conclusion : break and revolution -- Appendix 1 : timeline of key dates.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520404427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yates-Doerr, Emily, 1978- Mal-nutrition Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2024] ISBN 9780520404427
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520404434
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