African gender trouble and African womanism: An interview with Chikwenye Ogunyemi and Wanjira Muthoni

Signs

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 709-726

  Arndt, Susan ^a  

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EID: 2642525744     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495479     Document Type: Article

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