From 'as good as gold' to 'gold diggers': Farming women and the survival of British family farming

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 280-298

  Price, Linda ^a   Evans, Nick ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS; FAMILY FARM; FEMINISM; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33750098498     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: 14679523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2006.00418.x     Document Type: Article

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