The Biological Clock: Age, Risk, and the Biopolitics of Reproductive Time.
The present article explores the social and subjective dimensions of the biological clock and its implications for reproductive time through a qualitative study based on 40 life story interviews of women from Santiago de Chile. Although the narrative of the biological clock has become a prevalent fr...
| Publicado en: | Sex Roles Vol. 84; no. 11/12; pp. 765 - 779 |
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Springer Nature
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