Racialism, Sexuality, and Masculinity: Gendering "Global Ethnography" of the Workplace

Social Politics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Poster, Winifred R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1093/sp/9.1.126     Document Type: Review

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