Prima gravida: Reconfiguring the maternal body in visual representation

Feminist Theory

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 255-270

  Betterton, Rosemary ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agency; embodiment; pregnancy; representation; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993791746     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146470002762491999     Document Type: Article

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