Left high and dry?: The lives of women married to seafarers in Goa and Mumbai

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 61-85

  Sampson, Helen ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gender; globalization; Goa; India; mini ethnography; Mumbai; seafarers; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645127015     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105055661     Document Type: Article

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