Gender and the economics of the sentimental market in nineteenth-century America

Social Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 105-130

  Sandage, Scott A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/sp/6.2.105     Document Type: Article

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