Women on welfare: Conversational sites of acquiescence and dissent

Discourse and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 531-557

  Kingfisher, Catherine Pélissier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Agency; Gender; Poststructuralism; Poverty; Public assistance; Resistance; Reverse discourse; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444440796     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007004005     Document Type: Article

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