"She's not really a woman, she's half a man":Gendered discourses of embodiment in a french farming community

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 641-650

  Saugeres, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMILY FARM; FARMING SYSTEM; GENDER RELATIONS; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

AVEYRON; FRANCE; MIDI-PYRENEES;

EID: 0036875358     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-5395(02)00342-4     Document Type: Article

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