"I am a woman now!": Rewriting cartographies of girlhood from the critical standpoint of disability

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 253-269

  Erevelles, Nirmala ^a   Mutua, Kagendo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 77649138739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781410612632     Document Type: Chapter

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