The blunt cutting-edge: The construction of sexuality in the Bengali "feminist" magazine Sananda

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 179-196

  Basu, Srimati ^a  

^a DEPAUW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042938418     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14680770120062123     Document Type: Article

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