General economy and productive dualisms

Gender, Work and Organization

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 455-474

  Borgerson, Janet ^a   Rehn, Alf ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bataille; Dualism; Gender; General economy; Ontology; Race

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; GENDER RELATIONS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 2942748111     PISSN: 09686673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2004.00242.x     Document Type: Article

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