Smoke-filled wombs and fragile fetuses: The social politics of fetal representation

Signs

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 63-108

  Oaks, Laury ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/495568     Document Type: Article

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