Maternity and Its Discontents: "Getting the Body Back" after Pregnancy

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 670-692

  Upton, Rebecca L ^a   Han, Sallie S ^b  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Body; Gender; Identity loss; Postpartum; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345491389     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241603257596     Document Type: Article

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