Technologized bodies: Virtual women and transformations in understandings of the body as natural

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 232-251

  O'Riordan, Kate ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203014653     Document Type: Chapter

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