Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
- Bridges, Khiara M.
- Date:
- [2011], ©2011
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011], ©2011.
Physical description
xi, 293 pages ; 23 cm
Contributors
Contents
Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular -- Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulations, and legal subjection -- The production of unruly bodies -- The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement -- The curious case of the "Alpha patient population" -- Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWA310.AN7 2011B85rOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780520268944
- 0520268946
- 9780520268951
- 0520268954