"Reproductive Boundaries draws on twenty-two months of research in the Perinatal Unit (PU) in Switzerland, encapsulating the PU staff members representations of what constitutes a standard, normal pregnancy as experienced on the psychosocial level. The PU offers a new form of psychosocial pregnancy care that responds to critiques of medicalized pregnancy care as overly fetus-centered, risk-oriented, and excluding men. Interested in how psychosocial pregnancy care can offer a dedicated space for pregnant women and their partners to discuss psychological, financial, personal, and work-related matters that the mainstream model of maternal medicine neglects, Ballif encapsulates the PU staff members representations of what constitutes a standard, normal pregnancy as experienced on the psychosocial level. She uncovers that healthcare workers in the PU dedicate most of their time to asking questions of pregnant women and their partners: specifically, about their interlocutors health, psychological state, or financial situation. As much as psychosocial prenatal care tries to create a new and supportive model for pregnant women, the questions asked in the PU and their underlying assumptions also create new sets of norms and expectations for pregnant women, or what she calls normative pregnancy. Reproductive Boundaries challenges the common assumption by some critics of medicalization that introducing psychosocial care in pregnancy would necessarily counteract medicalization and empower pregnant patients. By cautioning against the expansion of the surveillance of reproductive bodies, especially at a time when attacks against reproductive rights are gaining momentum, Ballif builds bridges between several current debates in reproductive and family studies and offers an original examination of inequalities in relation to prenatal care by engaging with queer reproduction, stratified reproduction, and reproductive justice"-- Provided by publisher.