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Does Oil Wealth Hurt Women? A Reply to Caraway, Charrad, Kang, and Norris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2009

Michael L. Ross
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles

Extract

I am grateful to the editors of Politics & Gender for organizing this exchange. I agree with many of the points raised by Teri Caraway, Mounira Charrad, and Alice Kang, but disagree sharply with Pippa Norris.

Type
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
Copyright
Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2009

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