Consuming skin: Dermographies of female subjection and abjection

Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 157-168

  Kenway, Jane ^a   Bullen, Elizabeth ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84899011271     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203866269     Document Type: Chapter

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