"That's Not a Beer Bong, It's a Breast Pump!" Representations of Breastfeeding in Prime-Time Fictional Television

Health Communication

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 329-340

  Foss, Katherine A ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TELEVISION; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST FEEDING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURE; HUMANS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878615437     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2012.685692     Document Type: Article

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