Resolving risk? Marriage and creative conjugality

Development and Change

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-129

  Jackson, Cecile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER ISSUE; KINSHIP; MARRIAGE; RISK FACTOR; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 33846785317     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00405.x     Document Type: Article

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