'As housewives we are worms': Women, modernity and the home question

Cultural Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 449-463

  Johnson, Lesley ^a  

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EID: 5844327180     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: 14664348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502389600490271     Document Type: Article

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