Sri lankan men working as cleaners and carers: Negotiating masculinity in Naples

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-86

  Näre, Lena ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

care work; domestic work; intersectionality; masculinity; race ethnicity; Sri Lankan men

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956951103     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X10382881     Document Type: Article

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