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PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
 
Book chapter, Making Room for Daddy: Men's "Belly Talk" in the Contemporary United States. For edited volume, "Men and Reproduction: The Second Sex," University of California Press. In press.

 
Journal article, Maternity and Its Discontents. Co-authored with Rebecca L. Upton, Depauw University. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, December 2003.

Paper, The Nature/Culture of "Belly Talk." Presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in Chicago, Illinois, November 2003.

Presentation, The Baby in the Body: Gender and Pregnancy Practices in the Contemporary United States. Guest lecturer for Anthropology of Sex and Gender class at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, November 2003.


Presentation, How Fathers Figure in Pregnancy in the Contemporary United States. Guest lecturer for Childbirth and Culture class at the University of Michigan, October 2003.



Presentation, Rites and Wrongs? What Anthropology Might Teach Us about Birth. Guest lecturer at a meeting of the Birth Network, a local organization in Toledo, Ohio, March 2003.



Presentation, The Pregnancy Project: Doing Theory and Thinking Research in Fieldwork. Guest lecturer for the Theory and Method in Anthropology seminar at Albion College, Albion, Michigan, February 2003.



Paper, The First Picture Show: A Media Anthropology Approach to the Ultrasound. Guest lecturer presentation for Contemporary American Culture seminar at the University of Michigan, April 2002.



Paper, Making Babies, Making Mothers: Pregnancy and Personhood. Presented at the Association for Research on Mothering annual conference, York University, Toronto, October 2001.



Paper, Maternity and Its Discontents. Co-authored with Rebecca L. Upton, Depauw University. Presented at the Midwest Sociological Society annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2001, and at the Alfred P Sloan Centers for the Study of Working Families annual conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2001.


IN THE NEWS

"Belly Talk" was the subject of Nathan Bierma's weekly column, "On Language," in The Chicago Tribune on September 12, 2004.

Charity Nebbe of Michigan Radio interviewed me about my research on this topic for her weekly show, Stateside. To listen to the interview, which was aired on May 28, 2004, visit the Michigan Radio archives at http://www.michiganradio.org/stateside_052404.asp
 
The University of Michigan had a feature on "belly talk" on the gateway page of its Web site - www.umich.edu - during the week before Mother's Day on May 9, 2004. The same featured appeared in print in the University Record for the same week.
 
Jeff Zaslow of The Wall Street Journal interviewed me about the topic for his column, Moving On, which appeared on April 29, 2004.

Text from talks

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Gender and Pregnancy Practices

Men's Belly Talk


Coming soon - please check back for links to these texts:
 
"The Nature/Culture of 'Belly Talk,'" presented at the American Anthropological Association annual meetings in November 2003, Chicago, Illinois.