European gender regimes and policies: Comparative perspectives

European Gender Regimes and Policies: Comparative Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-143

  Sümer, Sevil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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