Feminist Media Ethnography in India: Exploring Power, Gender, and Culture in the Field

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 69-103

  Parameswaran, Radhika ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84993736015     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107780040100700104     Document Type: Article

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