Gender, power and the ambiguities of resistance in a Malay community of Peninsular Malaysia

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 49-61

  Healey, Lucy ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER RELATIONS;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 0032975277     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(98)00094-6     Document Type: Article

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