Cultural Values or Universal Rights? Women's Narratives of Compliance and Contestation in Urban Afghanistan

Feminist Economics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-24

  Kabeer, Naila ^a   Khan, Ayesha ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b Karachi Based Collective Social Science Research   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

culture; economics of the family; empowerment; gender; intrahousehold bargaining; Microfinance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903210772     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2014.926558     Document Type: Article

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