Girls who act like women who fly: Jessica Dubroff as cultural troublemaker

Signs

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 770-807

  Projansky, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 33748363511     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495288     Document Type: Article

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