Constructing rape: Feminism, change, and women’s everyday understandings of sexual assault

Sociological Spectrum

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 101-139

  Chasteen, Amy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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EID: 0041075734     PISSN: 02732173     EISSN: 15210707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02732170121403     Document Type: Article

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