How gender hierarchies matter in youth activism: Young people's mobilizing around sexual health in Ecuador and Peru

Journal of Youth Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 695-711

  Coe, Anna Britt ^a   Goicolea, Isabel ^a   Öhman, Ann ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

activism; gender; Latin America; social hierarchies; social movement theory; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882257693     PISSN: 13676261     EISSN: 14699680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2012.744815     Document Type: Article

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