Cyborgs or goddesses?: Becoming divine in a cyberfeminist age

Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 302-322

  Graham, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203977019-26     Document Type: Chapter

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