Empowerment, constraint, and the entrepreneurial self: A study of white women entrepreneurs

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 268-293

  Gill, Rebecca ^a   Ganesh, Shiv ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Discourse; Empowerment; Entrepreneurial Self; Entrepreneurship; Feminism; Frontier Myth; Gender; Intersectionality; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547428852     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880701434265     Document Type: Article

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