Minding the body, sexing the brain: Hormonal truth and the post-feminist hermeneutics of adolescence

Feminist Theory

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 305-323

  Pinto, Pedro ^a   Nogueira, Conceição ^b   Oliveira, João ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Girls' magazines; governmentality; post feminism; sexual difference; techno science

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871348973     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700112456006     Document Type: Article

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