Siren songs: Gendered discourses of concern for sea creatures

A Companion to Feminist Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 458-485

  Wolch, Jennifer ^a   Zhang, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal conservation; Animal geographies; Feminist approach; Sea creatures; Women's attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750142079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996898.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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