Voice and Agency: Where Are We Now?

Feminist Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-29

  Gammage, Sarah ^a   Kabeer, Naila ^b   van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana ^c  

^a UN   (United States)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; empowerment; gender; inequality; justice; voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84949321365     PISSN: 13545701     EISSN: 14664372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1101308     Document Type: Editorial

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