Culture, diet and the maternal body: Ghanaian women's perspectives on food, fat and childbearing

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

Volumn 22, Issue , 2011, Pages 130-153

  De Graft Aikins, Ama ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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