Urology
Volume 71, Issue 5 , Pages 767-770 , May 2008

Female Urinary Incontinence and the Construction of Nineteenth-Century Stigmatized Womanhood

  • Tanfer Emin Tunc

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Tanfer Emin Tunc, Ph.D., Hacettepe University, Department of American Culture and Literature, Faculty of Letters, Beyetepe, Ankara, Turkey.

Received 22 August 2007 ,Accepted 12 November 2007.

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PII: S0090-4295(07)02424-7

doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.11.053

Urology
Volume 71, Issue 5 , Pages 767-770 , May 2008