Spending power: Love, money, and the reconfiguration of gender relations in Ado-Odo, Southwestern Nigeria

American Ethnologist

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 963-980

  Cornwall, Andrea ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender relations; Love; Money; Nigeria; Women; Yoruba

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036872676     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.963     Document Type: Review

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