Confessions of the new capitalist mother: Twenty-first-century writing on motherhood as trauma1

Women: A Cultural Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-40

  Quiney, Ruth ^a  

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EID: 85048902003     PISSN: 09574042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09574040701276704     Document Type: Note

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