Motherhood and inequality: A commentary on Hanna Rosin's "the case against breastfeeding"

Journal of Human Lactation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 266-268

  Hausman, Bernice L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; BREAST MILK; CHILD HEALTH; CULTURAL FACTOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROMOTION; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL WELFARE; NOTE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BREAST FEEDING; EMPLOYMENT; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT WELFARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MOTHERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 68649101824     PISSN: 08903344     EISSN: 15525732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0890334409341180     Document Type: Note

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