Commitment or commitment-kitsch? Rethinking the ‘woman question’, agency, and feminist politics

Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 45-63

  Van Wichelen, Sonja ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84945673860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230236967     Document Type: Chapter

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