'The illiterate woman': Changing approaches to researching women's literacy

Women, Literacy and Development: Alternative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 15-34

  Robinson Pant, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203300237     Document Type: Chapter

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