Teenage pregnancies and sex education: Constructing the girl/woman subject

Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 201-221

  Monk, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203945094     Document Type: Chapter

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