CONTENTS Introduction: The Development of Discourses Surrounding Reproductive Risks Lauren Fordyce and Aminata Maraesa Complications in Measuring and Defining Risk Conceiving Risk in K'iche' Maya Reproduction Matthew R. Dudgeon Failing to See the Danger: Conceptions of Pregnancy and Care Practices among Mexican Immigrant Women in New York City Alyshia Galvez The Vital Conjuncture of Methamphetamine-Involved Pregnancy: Objective Risks and Subjective Realities Alison B. Hamilton Biopolitical Narratives of Risk and Responsibility Birth and Blame: Guatemalan Midwives and Reproductive Risk Sheila Cosminsky "They Don't Know Anything": How Medical Authority Constructs Perceptions of Reproductive Risk among Low-Income Mothers in Mexico Vania Smith-Oka Local Contours of Reproductive Risk and Responsibility in Rural Oaxaca Rebecca Howes-Mischel New Countryside, New Family: The Discourses of Reproductive Risk in Postsocialist Rural China Qingyan Ma Struggles over the Embodiment of Reproductive Risk Negotiating Risk and the Politics of Responsibility: Mothers and Young Child Health among Datoga Pastoralists in Northern Tanzania Alyson G. Young Shifting Maternal Responsibilities and the Trajectory of Blame in Northern Ghana Aaron R. Denham Imaging Maternal Responsibility: Prenatal Diagnosis and Ultrasound among Haitians in South Florida Lauren Fordyce A Competition over Reproductive Authority: Prenatal Risk Assessment in Southern Belize Aminata Maraesa.