Creating an artistic self: Amateur quilters and subjective careers

Sociological Focus

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-216

  Stalp, Marybeth C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 43249152572     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.2006.10571285     Document Type: Article

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