Re-imaging Bulgarian women: The Marxist legacy and women's self-identity

Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-98

  Kotzeva, Tatyana ^a  

^a SOUTH WEST UNIVERSITY NEOFIT RILSKI   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; WOMENS STATUS;

BULGARIA;

EID: 0032699649     PISSN: 13523279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13523279908415398     Document Type: Article

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