Backlash: Or how to snatch failure from the jaws of success in gender and development

Progress in Development Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 51-56

  Momsen, Janet Henshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0010371798     PISSN: 14649934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146499340100100105     Document Type: Article

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