Acadas and fertilizer girls: Young Nigerian women and the romance of middle-class modernity

Gendered Modernities: Ethnographic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 53-76

  Bastian, Misty L ^a  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-09944-0     Document Type: Chapter

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