Reconfigurations of gender and class relations: Class differences, class condescension and the changing place of class relations

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Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 825-850

  McDowell, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CULTURAL IDENTITY; GENDER RELATIONS; LABOR MARKET; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SOCIAL POLICY; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746722109     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00478.x     Document Type: Article

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