Learning how to be a woman in the Canadian Forces/unlearning it through feminism: An autoethnography of my learning journey

Studies in Continuing Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-301

  Taber, Nancy ^a  

^a MOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 29244454580     PISSN: 0158037X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01580370500376630     Document Type: Article

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