Birthing modernity: spatial discourses of cesarean birth in São Paulo, Brazil;Parir la modernidad: discursos espaciales del parto por cesárea en San Pablo, Brasil

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1207-1220

  Klimpel, Jill ^a   Whitson, Risa ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth; Brazil; caesarean section; geographies of reproduction; modernity

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; MODERNITY; NATIONALISM; PARTURITION; REPRODUCTION;

BRAZIL; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)];

EID: 84958048396     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2015.1136817     Document Type: Article

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