"Giving Guilt the Flick"?: An Investigation of Mothers' Talk About Guilt in Relation to Infant Feeding

Psychology of Women Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-112

  Williams, Kate ^a   Donaghue, Ngaire ^a   Kurz, Tim ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

breast feeding; child rearing practices; choice; emotional control; expert discourse; guilt; mothers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874537879     PISSN: 03616843     EISSN: 14716402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0361684312463000     Document Type: Article

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