Of rats and women: Narratives of motherhood in environmental epigenetics

Martha Kenney1, Ruth Müller2
1Women and Gender Studies, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
2Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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