Seeking Romance in the Crosshairs of Multiple-Partner Fertility: Ethnographic Insights on Low-Income Urban and Rural Mothers

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 654, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 185-212

  Burton, Linda M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

intimate partner hierarchies; multiple partner fertility; romance; single mothers; urban and rural poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902206140     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214530831     Document Type: Article

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