Unhappy endings: A feminist reappraisal of the women's health movement from the vantage of pregnancy loss

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1881-1891

  Layne, Linda L ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Infant death; Miscarriage; Narratives of linear progress; Natural childbirth movement; Stillbirth; Women's health movement

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; INFANT MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; WOMENS HEALTH;

CHILD DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GUILT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES, DRUG-INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; GUILT; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HOME CHILDBIRTH; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEWS; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037400926     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00211-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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