'Resting', AIDS-affliction and marital constraints: Engendered livelihood issues in the aftermath of Lesotho mineworker retrenchments

Development Southern Africa

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 681-689

  Naidoo, Kammila ^a,b   Matsie, Rachel ^b   Ochse, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ethnography; experiences of poverty; gender equality; Mafeteng; marital powers

Indexed keywords

GENDER DISPARITY; MARRIAGE; POVERTY; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

LESOTHO; MAFETENG;

EID: 84860788424     PISSN: 0376835X     EISSN: 14703637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2011.623925     Document Type: Article

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