To honor and obey: Efficiency, inequality, and patriarchal property rights

Feminist Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 25-44

  Braunstein, Elissa ^a   Folbre, Nancy ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Economics of the family; Family law; Patriarchal production; Patriarchal property rights; Reproductive labor; Residual claimancy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035588248     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/713767276     Document Type: Article

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