The traffic in 'nature': Maternal bodies and obesity

Fatness and the Maternal Body: Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

Volumn 22, Issue , 2011, Pages 22-42

  Warin, Megan ^a   Moore, Vivienne ^a   Davies, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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