Keeping it in the community: Creating safe spaces for black girlhood

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-61

  Weekes, Debbie ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Mixedness'; Black femininity; Community; Essentialism; Symbolic boundaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 23344444759     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1366880032000063897     Document Type: Review

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