Brutality and bureaucracy: Human rights, intimate violence and the role of feminist ethnography

Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 138-147

  Burton, Barbara ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN   (United States)

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EID: 84987829048     PISSN: 10816976     EISSN: 15552934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/pol.2000.23.1.138     Document Type: Article

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