Youth privilege: Doing age and gender in russia's single-mother families

Gender and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 616-641

  Utrata, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND   (United States)

Author keywords

age; age relations; family; gender; generation; grandmothers; intergenerational support; intersectionality; privilege; Russia; single motherhood; single mothers; youth privilege

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052798988     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243211421781     Document Type: Article

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