What a girl wants?: Fantasizing the reclamation of self in postfeminism

What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-191

  Negra, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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