Gender Inequality: Feminist Theories and Politics
- ISBN-10
- 1891487604
- ISBN-13
- 9781891487606
- Series
- Gender Inequality
- Category
- Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Roxbury Pub.
- Author
- Judith Lorber
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- 2012
- 342 pages
- Paperback
- Oxford University Press, USA
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