Culture, Essentialism, Immigration and Representations of Gender

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 839-860

  Mahalingam, Ramaswami ^a   Leu, Janxin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

essentialism; gender; Indian immigrants; mail order brides

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144519230     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354305059335     Document Type: Article

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