Stories of an absent ‘father’: Single women negotiating relatedness through donor profiles

Relatedness in Assisted Reproduction: Families, Origins and Identities

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 212-231

  Graham, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84952899217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139814737     Document Type: Chapter

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