The Determinants of Women's Work: A Case Study from Three Urban Low-income Communities in Amman, Jordan
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An abstract of the dissertation of Taghrid Khuri Tubbeh as discussed by the authors for the Doctor or Philosophy in Urban Studies presented in 2014 is presented in the online version of this paper.Abstract:
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