Women, work and the imagination of craft in South Asia

Contemporary South Asia

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 287-306

  Wilkinson Weber, Clare M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAFT PRODUCTION; LABOR PARTICIPATION; WOMENS STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 8644266705     PISSN: 09584935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0958493042000272203     Document Type: Article

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