Book Review Cortés Vieco, Francisco José. (2021). Bearing Liminality, Laboring White Ink: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women’s Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang. Pages: 280. ISBN: 978-1-80079-013-1

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.624281

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01-07-2025
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Celdrán-Noguera, L. (2025). Book Review Cortés Vieco, Francisco José. (2021). Bearing Liminality, Laboring White Ink: Pregnancy and Childbirth in Women’s Literature. Oxford: Peter Lang. Pages: 280. ISBN: 978-1-80079-013-1. International Journal of English Studies, 25(1), 239–243. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.624281