Post-war backlash violence against women: What can “masculinity” explain?

Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 293-320

  Pankhurst, Donna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

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