Publications

Publication details [#14896]

Freed, Alice F. 1999. Communities of practice and pregnant women: Is there a connection? Language in Society 28 (2) : 257–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | gender | narrative

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article applies the community of practice framework to women's pregnancy stories. Although pregnant women do not make up a community of practice, this framework does yield various insights into the experience of being pregnant.