Performing breastfeeding: Embodiment, ethics and the maternal subject

Feminist Review

Volumn , Issue 78, 2004, Pages 99-116

  Shaw, Rhonda ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Embodiment; Ethics; Maternal subjectivity; Performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 10444275526     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400186     Document Type: Review

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