Killer sperm: Masculinity and the essence of male hierarchies

Reconceiving the Second Sex: Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue , 2009, Pages 45-71

  Moore, Lisa Jean ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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