Ain't I a woman? Female landmine survivors' beauty pageants and the ethics of staring

Social Identities

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-18

  Bloul, Rachel A D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

beauty pageant; ethics of staring; landmine survivors; stigma

Indexed keywords

ETHICS; LANDMINE; MORALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 84859079507     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630.2012.629507     Document Type: Article

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