“Where is the mother’s instinct?” : a case study on how motherhood is learned through the practice of Chinese confinement.

Motherhood has always been treated as an essential phase of life in the female life course, so much so that it has been seen as biological by many around the world. But in recent years, studies on how motherhood is a social construct, and thus a learned process, have started to gain precedence withi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Wei Qi.
Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/34274