Elaborate Isolation: Metastructures of Knowledge About Women

Information Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 179-194

  Palmer, Carole L ^a   Malone, Cheryl Knott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist Theory; Knowledge Organization; Metastructure; Representation; Subject Access Subject

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539247     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240121017     Document Type: Article

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