{"product_id":"weighing-the-future-race-science-and-pregnancy-trials-in-the-postgenomic-era-volume-9-paperback","title":"Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era Volume 9 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatali Valdez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpigenetics, the study of heritable changes in gene expression, has been heralded as one of the most promising new fields of scientific inquiry. Current large-scale studies selectively draw on epigenetics to connect behavioral choices made by pregnant people, such as diet and exercise, to health risks for future generations. As the first ethnography of its kind, \u003ci\u003eWeighing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e examines the sociopolitical implications of ongoing pregnancy trials in the United States and the United Kingdom, illuminating how processes of scientific knowledge production are linked to capitalism, surveillance, and environmental reproduction. Natali Valdez argues that a focus on individual behavior rather than social environments ignores the vital impacts of systemic racism. The environments we imagine to shape our genes, bodies, and future health are intimately tied to race, gender, and structures of inequality. This groundbreaking book makes the case that science, and how we translate it, is a reproductive project that requires feminist vigilance. Instead of fixating on a future at risk, this book brings attention to the present at stake.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when we recruit maternal bodies that economize predictive risk based on race, class, and obesity? \u003ci\u003eWeighing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that although prenatal trials are misaligned, they continue to scaffold scientific knowledge and portent future 'value.' Valdez has given us an astounding book that challenges our embrace of epigenetics, urging us to critique how capitalist interests make racialized, classed, and 'nonnormative' pregnant bodies individually accountable for the future.--Dána-Ain Davis, author of \u003ci\u003eReproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWeighing the Future\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly exposes how cutting-edge science fosters the same old racialized narratives of health. Carefully detailed, analytically nuanced, politically engaged, and ethnographically rich, Valdez chronicles how histories of race continue to shape science's views of pregnancy and the pregnant body. A must-read book for our times.\"--Banu Subramaniam, author of \u003ci\u003eGhost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eWeighing the Future \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fascinating and provocative account of how the new science of epigenetics has been folded into preexisting paradigms that locate reproductive risk primarily within women's bodies. In one brilliant chapter after another, Natali Valdez demonstrates how 'the environment' became understood as a matter of individual women's behaviors, foreclosing a more capacious, structurally oriented instantiation of epigenetics. A crucial intervention into contemporary debates about reproductive health and medicine, this book is a must-read for scholars, medical researchers, and clinicians.\"--Rene Almeling, author of \u003ci\u003eGUYnecology\u003ci\u003e: \u003c\/i\u003e The Missing Science of Men's Reproductive Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatali Valdez\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 284\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099861815431,"sku":"9780520380141","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/43b2d7fab26bd7929a4510a12a0d2ee5.webp?v=1732378473","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/weighing-the-future-race-science-and-pregnancy-trials-in-the-postgenomic-era-volume-9-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}