On Menopause and Cyborgs: Or, towards a feminist Cyborg politics of Menopause

Body and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 33-52

  Leng, Kwok Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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EID: 0037736402     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X96002003002     Document Type: Article

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