Strange yet stylish headgear: Virtual reality consumption and the construction of gender

Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 150-172

  Green, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203977019-16     Document Type: Chapter

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