More labels than a jam jar: The gendered dynamics of diagnosis for girls and women with autism1

Contesting Illness: Process and Practices

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 239-258

  Davidson, Joyce ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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