Entrepreneurial identities and the problematic of subjectivity in media-mediated discourses

Discourse and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 241-263

  Iyer, Radha ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Becoming; Discourses of femininity; Media governmentality; Patriarchy; Women entrepreneurs

Indexed keywords

EID: 62349095374     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508099004     Document Type: Article

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