Arranging love: Interrogating the vantage point in cross-border feminism

Signs

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 583-609

  Khandelwal, Meena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 63049132714     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/593341     Document Type: Review

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