New policies for battered women: Negotiating the local and the global in Blair's Britain

Policy and Politics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-427

  Howe, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Feminist politics; Globalisation; UK policy initiatives; Violence against women

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; GLOBALIZATION; NEOLIBERALISM; VIOLENCE; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746189456     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557306777695334     Document Type: Article

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