Left-behind and Vulnerable? Conceptualising Development and Older Women's Agency in Rural China

Asian Studies Review

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 186-204

  Jacka, Tamara ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

agency; capability approach; development; older women; rural China; the left behind; vulnerable groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899748138     PISSN: 10357823     EISSN: 14678403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2014.891566     Document Type: Article

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