Cyberspace Time and Infertility: Thoughts on Social Time and the Environment

Time & Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-89

  Menzies, Heather ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

asychronization; karoushi; McLuhan; reproductive time; social time; technological time; temporality; virtuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034147645     PISSN: 0961463X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X00009001005     Document Type: Article

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