The dialectics of disruption: Paradoxes of nature and professionalism in contemporary American childbearing

Reproductive Disruptions: Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millenium

Volumn 11, Issue , 2007, Pages 47-78

  Bledsoe, Caroline H ^a   Scherrer, Rachel F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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