Gender and environmentalism: Results from the 1993 general social survey

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 841-858

  Blocker, T Jean ^a,b   Eckberg, Douglas Lee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b Roper Ctr for Pub Opinion Research   (United States)

^c NONE

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