When couples become parents: The creation of gender in the transition to parenthood

When Couples Become Parents: The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-334

  Fox, Bonnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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