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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah S. RichardsonPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9780226544809ISBN 10: 022654480 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 05 November 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Maternal Imprint 2. Sex Equality in Heredity 3. Prenatal Culture 4. Germ Plasm Hygiene 5. Maternal Effects 6. Race, Birth Weight, and the Biosocial Body 7. Fetal Programming 8. It’s the Mother! 9. Epilogue: Gender and Heredity in the Postgenomic Moment Acknowledgments Notes References IndexReviewsA rich, elegantly argued analysis of the long history of scientific and popular thinking about 'maternal effects' on the fetuses that women gestate, full of well-articulated plunges into the archives of scientific texts and journals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important, beautifully researched, and well-written book by an author whose prior works have literally changed their fields. -- Rayna Rapp, New York University Richardson provides a detailed historical and sociological narrative, spanning the period from pre-Weismann concepts of heritability to modern day epigenetics. Although Weismann's work paved the way for the Modern Synthesis, its emphasis on a disposable soma led him to challenge the very legitimacy of research into maternal influences and prenatal culture. Modern epigenetics research appears to address this challenge. Richardson's gender analysis of peer-reviewed science reveals that epigenetics is not just the newest cutting-edge, pro-social, plasticity-favoring, anti-genetic, and anti-reductionist field to emerge from modern molecular genetics. Rather, it is also the 'vector' of newly problematic images and social roles that limit women and diminish the status of pregnancy and motherhood, in ways that are disturbingly similar to nineteenth century societal notions of women's roles. Richardson's exquisitely documented arguments are of compelling interest to all with an interest in the complex interface of science and society. -- Michael J. Wade, Indiana University A rich, elegantly argued analysis of the long history of scientific and popular thinking about 'maternal effects' on the fetuses that women gestate, full of well-articulated plunges into the archives of scientific texts and journals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This is an important, beautifully researched, and well-written book by an author whose prior works have literally changed their fields. --Rayna Rapp, New York University Author InformationSarah S. Richardson is professor of the history of science and of studies of women, gender, and sexuality at Harvard University. She directs the Harvard GenderSci Lab and is the author of Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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