‘Always Ready and Always Clean’?: Competing Discourses of Breast-feeding, Infant Illness and the Politics of Mother-blame in Bolivia

Body & Society

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 83-108

  Tapias, Maria ^a  

^a GRINNELL COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33746610699     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X06064324     Document Type: Article

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