'Explosions and examinations': Growing up female in post-Saddam Iraq

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-38

  Campbell, Perri ^a   Kelly, Peter ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital spaces; Femininity; Fields of possibility; Post invasion Iraq; Practices of the self

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449213982     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676260802558888     Document Type: Article

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