Midwives with mobiles: A dialectical perspective on gender arising from technology introduction in rural Indonesia

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 486-501

  Chib, Arul ^a   Chen, Vivian Hsueh Hua ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gender; Healthcare; Indonesia; MHealth; Mobile; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957839781     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810393902     Document Type: Article

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