Desirable reading: The relationship between women students' lives and their reading practices

Adult Education Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 261-276

  Jarvis, Christine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adult reading; Cultural studies; Reception theory; Transformation theory; Women in higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644276510     PISSN: 07417136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741713603254029     Document Type: Article

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