Negotiating "Doing the month": An ethnographic study examining the postnatal practices of two generations of Chinese women

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-52

  Holroyd, Eleanor ^a   Lopez, Violeta ^b   Chan, Sally Wai Chi ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

"doing the month"; Chinese women; Culture; Ethnography; Postnatal practices; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEGOTIATING; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953014378     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2011.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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