Incomplete women and strong men - Accounts of infertility as a gendered construction of well-being

Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 223-242

  Machado, Helena ^a,b   Remoaldo, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

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