For the children’s sake: Symbolic power lost?

Children and the Changing Family: between Transformation and Negotiation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 134-148

  Jensen, An Magritt ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 27844482830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203451823-14     Document Type: Chapter

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