Catholics using contraceptives: Religion, family planning, and interpretive agency in rural Mexico

Studies in Family Planning

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 93-104

  Hirsch, Jennifer S ^a  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE USE; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY; RELIGION;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RELIGION; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BIRTH INTERVALS; BIRTH RATE; CATHOLICISM; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 44349086968     PISSN: 00393665     EISSN: 17284465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4465.2008.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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