Class and gender at the intersection: Working-class women's dispositions towards employment and motherhood

Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 235-253

  Armstrong, Jo ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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