Governance reforms and rural women in India: What types of women citizens are produced by the will to empower?

Social Politics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-302

  Everett, Jana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 67650156866     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: 14682893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxp009     Document Type: Article

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