Precarious beginnings: Gendered risk discourses in psychiatric research literature about postpartum depression

Health

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 451-466

  Godderis, Rebecca ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; gender and health; mental health; postpartum depression (PPD); risk and health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; RISK FACTOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CULTURE; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77956069492     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459309358595     Document Type: Article

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