Issues of gender, reflexivity and positionality in the field of disability: Researching visual impairment in an arab society

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 467-484

  Ahmed, Dunya Ahmed Abdulla ^a   Hundt, Gillian Lewando ^b   Blackburn, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN   (Bahrain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

disability; gender; Muslim society; positionality; reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84155181589     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325010370188     Document Type: Article

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