Empowering Older Women: Cross-cultural Views : a Guide for Discussion and Training, with Selection from the "Empowerment" Workshops at the Conference on Coping with Social Change: Programs that Work, Acapulco, Mexico, June 1989, and the Conference of the Association of Women in Development, Washington, DC, November 1989Elsa Chaney |
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