"You can't cross a river without getting wet": A feminist standpoint on the dilemmas of cross-cultural research

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 163-184

  Shope, Janet Hinson ^a  

^a GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Cross cultural research; Feminist epistemology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646257101     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800405282792     Document Type: Article

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