Gender, myth and fable: The perils of mainstreaming in sector bureaucracies

Feminisms in development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 101-110

  Standing, Hilary ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

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