Male 'providers' and female 'housewives': A Gendered co-performance in rural North India

Development and Change

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1025-1048

  Rao, Nitya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER ROLE; MALE; RURAL SOCIETY; WOMENS STATUS;

INDIA;

EID: 84866441962     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01789.x     Document Type: Article

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