"People aren't afraid anymore, but it's hard to find books": Reading practices that inform the personal and social identities of self-identified lesbian and queer young women

Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 52-74

  Rothbauer, Poulette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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