‘My work is to help the woman who wants to have a child, not the woman who wants to have an abortion’: Discourses of patriarchy and power among African nurses in South Africa

International Journal of Phytoremediation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 43-67

  Walker, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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EID: 0002454621     PISSN: 15226514     EISSN: 15497879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00020189608707849     Document Type: Article

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