Servants and daughters: Out of wedlock pregnancy and abandonment of women in Bangladesh

Human Organization

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 170-177

  Wilson Moore, Margot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abandonment; Exploitation; Bangladesh; Out of wedlock pregnancy; Poverty; Servants; Women's shelter

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL ATTITUDES; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; UNMARRIED MOTHERS; WOMEN'S STATUS;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0029906047     PISSN: 00187259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17730/humo.55.2.n43215445u000hg6     Document Type: Article

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