‘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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2016]
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Religion & gender
Year: 2016, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 95-111 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Portugal
/ Motherhood
/ Birth
/ Spirituality
/ Holism
/ Controversy
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements KBH Iberian Peninsula NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Biomedicine
B Holistic Mothering B Homebirth B Goddess Spirituality B Portugal B Cam |
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