‘Holistic mothers’ or ‘bad mothers’? Challenging biomedical models of the body in Portugal

This paper is based on early fieldwork findings on ‘holistic mothering’ in contemporary Portugal. I use holistic mothering as an umbrella term to cover different mothering choices, which are rooted in the assumption that pregnancy, childbirth and early childhood are important spiritual occasions for...

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Main Author: Fedele, A. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10071/14637
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/14637