The individual in public and private: The significance of mothers and children

Analysing Families: Morality and Rationality in Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 199-217

  McCarthy, Jane Ribbens ^a   Edwards, Rosalind ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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