Making and unmaking ethnicities in the rwandan context: Implication for gender-based violence, health, and wellbeing of women

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 469-482

  Kubai, Anne ^a   Ahlberg, Beth Maina ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Skaraborgs Institutet   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender equality policy; Gender based violence; Hutu; Rwanda; Tutsi

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; EMPOWERMENT; ETHNICITY; MOBILIZATION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; RESEARCH; VIOLENCE;

RWANDA;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENOCIDE; HUMAN; POLICY; RWANDA; SEXUAL CRIME; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

ETHNIC CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENOCIDE; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PUBLIC POLICY; RWANDA; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 84888286189     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2013.832012     Document Type: Article

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