Gender-Based Violence in a Kenyan Slum: Creating Local, Woman-Centered Interventions

Journal of Social Service Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 427-438

  Swart, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender based violence; interventions; Kenya; slums

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864591830     PISSN: 01488376     EISSN: 15407314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01488376.2012.676022     Document Type: Article

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