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Cited by 115Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal ChangesReproductive Health and ContraceptionMaternal and Neonatal Healthcare

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Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk

Waggoner, Miranda R.·2017·University of California Press eBooks
DOI 10.1525/california/9780520288065.001.0001
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Increasingly, medical and public health recommendations urge all women of reproductive age to minimize health risks to future pregnancies even when pregnancy is not on the horizon. Such advice is predicated on the belief that good pre-pregnancy care will ensure better birth outcomes in the United States. This pre-pregnancy model of health care effectively designates a “zero trimester” in which women are expected, before conception, to anticipate motherhood and prepare their bodies for healthy reproduction. Some health experts believe that pre-pregnancy care will solve many medical and social ills that were not addressed by the prenatal care model that dominated medical thinking in the twentieth century. Others believe it represents yet another attempt to control women’s bodies. In The Zero Trimester, Miranda Waggoner traces the shifting boundaries of reproductive risk and maternal responsibility in America to understand how and why the task of perfecting pregnancies now encompasses the whole of a woman’s reproductive life, from menarche to menopause. Waggoner shows how the zero trimester arose alongside shifts in medical and public health priorities, contentious reproductive politics, and the changing realities of women’s lives in the twenty-first century. The emergence of the zero trimester is not simply about medical and health concerns; it is also, more broadly, about how cultural power and social ideologies can shape population health imperatives and women’s bodily experi…

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Authors
Waggoner, M. R.
Corresponding author
Waggoner, Miranda R.
ORCID
Waggoner, Miranda R.
Venue
University of California Press eBooks
Publisher
University of California Press
Published
2017-09-12
DOI
10.1525/california/9780520288065.001.0001
OpenAlex
W3201411674
Cited by
114
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 1
FWCI
16.63
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
University of California Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Reproductive Health and Contraception
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare
Keywords
preconception care, reproductive risk, maternal responsibility, prenatal care, reproductive politics, female body, birth outcomes, reproductive health policy, women's health history

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