Reproductive outsiders - the perils and disruptive potential of reproductive coalitions

Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 106-121

  Millbank, Jenni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84904782402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203856116     Document Type: Chapter

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