Marital Distress and the Failure to Eat: The Expressive Dimensions of Feeding, Eating, and Self-care in Urban South Asia

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 316-333

  Snell Rood, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic; Feeding; Food insecurity; Marriage; South Asia; Violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ASIA; CATERING SERVICE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CARE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ANTHROPOLOGY, MEDICAL; ASIA; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SELF CARE; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940896241     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: 15481387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/maq.12184     Document Type: Article

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