'I'd like to just walk out of here': Australian women's experience of drought

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-170

  Alston, Margaret ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; DROUGHT; RURAL LANDSCAPE; WOMENS STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 33745038484     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00409.x     Document Type: Article

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