"A bastion of sanity in a crazy world": A local feminist movement and the reconstitution of scale, space, and place in an Eastern German City

Social Politics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 551-575

  Guenther, Katja M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33845466614     PISSN: 10724745     EISSN: 14682893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sp/jxl010     Document Type: Article

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