Reconceptualizing women’s agency and empowerment: Challenges to Self-Esteem discourse and women's lawbreaking

Women and Criminal Justice

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-89

  Pollack, Shoshana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empowerment; Women s empowerment; Women s lawbreaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937327040     PISSN: 08974454     EISSN: 15410323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J012v12n01_05     Document Type: Article

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