Gender and care: The role of cultural ideas of dirt and disgust

Gender, Bodies and Work

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 115-126

  Isaksen, Lise Widding ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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EID: 85082590183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315254609-9     Document Type: Chapter

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