Reddit reviews Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)

I really liked this article; it's terrible how much shame and almost a sort of secrecy there is about miscarriage in our society, and how it tends to make us uncomfortable so that we'd rather people just not talk about it- if we even acknowledge that pregnancy loss (particularly before a certain point in development) might be emotionally painful and difficult to "get over".

On the other hand, it could be portrayed as a foreigner not fully understanding a particular practice and exporting a version of it for his or her own use. I've long had Helen Hardacre's "Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan" on my reading list, and the implication there seems to be that there's at least some concept of appeasing vengeful spirits involved.