Robes, relics and rights: The Vatican and the Beijing conference on women

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-363

  Buss, Doris E ^a  

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EID: 0032221603     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096466399800700302     Document Type: Article

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