Tracks, intersections and dead ends: Multicultural challenges to state feminism in Denmark and Norway

Ethnicities

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 322-344

  Siim, Birte ^a   Skjeie, Hege ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Forced and arranged marriages; Gender equality; Immigration; Integration; Multiculturalism; Religious dress; State feminism

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749129617     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796808092446     Document Type: Article

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