Claiming a Place: Gender, Knowledge, and Authority as Emergent Properties

The Handbook of Language and Gender

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 302-326

  Meyerhoff, Miriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Gender; Ideology; Knowledge; Linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349214826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756942.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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