Working at motherhood: Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment

Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 211-233

  Segura, Denise A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315538891-10     Document Type: Chapter

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