Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 12, Issue 24 , Pages 104-115 , November 2004

Women are Silver, Women are Diamonds: Conflicting Images of Women in the Cambodian Print Media

  • Peter S Hill

      Affiliations

    • Senior Lecturer, International Health, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia
    • ,
  • Heng Thay Ly

      Affiliations

    • Head of Technical Office, National Institute of Public Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Australia

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Reproductive Health Matters
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