Ethnicity, Development and Gender: Tsáchila Indigenous Women in Ecuador

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 983-1016

  Radcliffe, Sarah ^a   Pequeño, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARGINALIZATION; MULTICULTURALISM; WOMENS STATUS;

AGRICULTURE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; ECUADOR; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGRICULTURE; ECUADOR; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ECUADOR;

EID: 78649457381     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01671.x     Document Type: Article

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