Gender tropes and colonial discourses in the turbulence of global finance

Contemporary Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-427

  Marshall, Don D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

discourses; financial trading; global financial governance; legitimacy; representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050418043     PISSN: 13569775     EISSN: 14693631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13569770903441743     Document Type: Article

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