Just picking up stones: Gender and technology in a small-scale gold mining site

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 173-184

  Verbrugge, Hannelore ^a   Van Wolputte, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203383117     Document Type: Chapter

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