Gendered literacy in Black and White: Turn-of-the-century African-American and European-American club women's printed texts

Signs

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 643-678

  Gere, Anne Ruggles ^a   Robbins, Sarah R ^a  

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EID: 6144243824     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/495101     Document Type: Article

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