Discordant connections: Discourses on gender and grassroots activism in two forest communities in India and Sweden

Signs

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 213-240

  Arora Jonsson, Seema ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

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EID: 70350096365     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/599259     Document Type: Article

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