"I Wasn't Being True to Myself": Women's Narratives of Postpartum Depression

Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mauthner, Natasha S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural factors; Feminist perspectives; Methodology; Postpartum depression; Relational theory; Self silencing

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EID: 84921258595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398090.003.0023     Document Type: Chapter

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