Gender and public talk: Accounting for women's variable participation in the public sphere

Sociological Theory

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 291-317

  Polletta, Francesca ^a   Chen, Pang Ching Bobby ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; deliberative democracy; gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892635877     PISSN: 07352751     EISSN: 14679558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0735275113515172     Document Type: Article

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