'They didn't tell me anything': Women's literacies and resistance in rural Mexico

Gender and Education

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 857-871

  Meyers, Susan V ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnography; literacy; Mexico; oppression; resistance; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858830897     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2010.549110     Document Type: Article

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