"In the eyes of a child, a father is everything": Changing constructions of fatherhood in urban Botswana?

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-113

  Datta, Kavita ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; PATERNITY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AFRICA; BOTSWANA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33947493428     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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