Maintaining local dependencies: Elderly women and global rehabilitation agendas in southeastern Botswana

Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 164-189

  Livingston, Julie ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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