Preemptive fridge magnets and other weapons of masculinist destruction: The rhetoric and reality of "safeguarding Australia"

Signs

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-51

  Winter, Bronwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 35348857725     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518264     Document Type: Article

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