Doing the ‘gender dance’: Black women professionals negotiating gender, race, work and family in post-apartheid South Africa

Community, Work and Family

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 429-444

  Jaga, Ameeta ^a   Arabandi, Bhavani ^b   Bagraim, Jeffrey ^a   Mdlongwa, Sibusiso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; gender; intersectionality; race; South Africa; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017475031     PISSN: 13668803     EISSN: 14693615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2017.1311840     Document Type: Article

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