Gender and Health Revisited

Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 411-429

  Read, Jen’nan Ghazal ^a   Gorman, Bridget K ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Black Woman; Health Profile; Immigrant Woman; Intimate Partner Violence; Physical Health

Indexed keywords

EID: 85016678273     PISSN: 13896903     EISSN: 2542839X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-7261-3_21     Document Type: Chapter

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