Wombs as God's laboratories: Pentecostal discourses of femininity in Zimbabwe

Africa

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 549-568

  Mate, Rekopantswe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; RELIGION; WOMENS ORGANIZATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0037797445     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2002.72.4.549     Document Type: Article

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