Many ways of becoming a woman: The case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian "Girls"

Ethnology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-18

  Sa'ar, Amalia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ROLE; MODERNITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; PALESTINE;

EID: 3042809503     PISSN: 00141828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3773852     Document Type: Article

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