'Reclaiming' the female body: Embodied identity work, resistance and the Grotesque

Body and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 67-84

  Pitts, Victoria L ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0002953701     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X98004003004     Document Type: Article

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