In the Guise of Civility: The Complicitous Maintenance of Inferential Forms of Sexism and Racism in Higher Education

Women's Studies in Communication

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 60-87

  Patton, Tracey Owens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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EID: 33846179390     PISSN: 07491409     EISSN: 2152999X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2004.10162466     Document Type: Article

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