{"product_id":"embodying-culture-pregnancy-in-japan-and-israel-hardback-9780813546353","title":"Embodying Culture; Pregnancy in Japan and Israel (Hardback) 9780813546353","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEmbodying Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePregnancy in Japan and Israel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTsipy Ivry (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813546353\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 September 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.624 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A fascinating double-ethnography of pregnancy in two cultures. This outstanding book reveals stunning cultural differences in the interpretation of the embodied experience of pregnancy. In spite of their mutual technological sophistication, Japanese and Israeli views on pregnancy could hardly be more different, nor could the biomedical advice that women in each culture receive. Ivry's work takes Brigitte Jordan's analysis of birth in four cultures to a new level, focusing specifically on the cultural influences that profoundly affect both women's and obstetricians' perceptions and management of pregnancy, and deeply demonstrating the influence of culture on biomedical 'science.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e - Robbie Davis-Floyd (author of Birth as an American Rite of Passage) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Ivry's extremely rich ethnography succeeds in defamiliarizing assumptions about pregnancy and gestation in both Israel and Japan. Recommended.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Ivry's timely book adds ethnographic description and analysis to public discussions about exactly what pregnancy means. This book reminds us why pregnancy--not just the newest technological methods--is a fascinating window into culture, and the themes it considers will be of interest to teachers and students in anthropology, gender studies, medical anthropology, epidemiology, and area studies.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Ethos) \u003cdiv\u003e\"With finely crafted ethnography, Tsipy Ivry engages her readers in the most intimate of experiences--pregnancy. Research in Japan and Israel reveals how medical knowledge and technologies are made use of differentially in these two locations by both physicians and women to accomplish a remarkably dissimilar embodiment of future motherhood. Ivry's position is that concern about the ramifications of technologically assisted reproduction should not usurp representations of the cultures of pregnancy.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Margaret Lock (author of Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEmbodying Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures-Japan and Israel-both 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. \u003cp\u003e The ethnography pieces together the voices of pregnant Japanese and Israeli women, their doctors, their partners, the literature they read, and depicts various clinical encounters such as ultrasound scans, explanatory classes for amniocentesis, birthing classes, and special pregnancy events. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The emergent pictures suggest that although experiences of pregnancy in Japan and Israel differ, pregnancy in both cultures is an energy-consuming project of meaning-making- suggesting that the sense of biomedical technologies are not only \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e the technologies themselves but are assigned by those who practice and experience them. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. The Doctoring of Pregnancy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Pregnancy in the Eyes of Israeli Ob-Gyns\u003cbr\u003e2 The Front and the Backstage of Japanese Prenatal Care\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Experiencing Pregnancy \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3 The Path of Bonding\u003cbr\u003e4 The Path of Ambiguity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Embodying Culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5 Juxtapositions\u003cbr\u003e6 Pregnant with Meaning \u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559291547928,"sku":"9780813546353","price":83.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/embodying-culture-pregnancy-in-japan-and-israel-hardback-9780813546353","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}