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Risk lifeworlds, perceptions and behaviours

The biomedicalisation of reproductive ageing: reproductive citizenship and the gendering of fertility risk

Pages 268-283 | Received 07 Jun 2018, Accepted 30 Jul 2019, Published online: 07 Aug 2019

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