Designed by women and designing women: Gender, planning and the geographies of the kitchen in Britain 1917-1946

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 42-60

  Llewellyn, Mark ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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