Social discourses, women's resistive voices: Facing involuntary childlessness in Bulgaria

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-151

  Todorova, Irina L G ^a,b   Kotzeva, Tatyana ^c,d  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b Health Psychology Research Center   (Bulgaria)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^d Women's Health Initiative   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFERTILITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; WOMENS STATUS;

BULGARIA;

EID: 0037363687     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(03)00018-9     Document Type: Article

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