"I wanted to be totally true to myself": Class and the making of the sexual self

Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 199-216

  McDermott, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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