Embodied Inequality: The Experience of Domestic Work in Urban Ecuador

Gender and Society

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 561-585

  de Casanova, Erynn Masi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

body; clothing dress; domestic work; Ecuador; social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880477209     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243213483895     Document Type: Article

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