Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body

Body & Society

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 13-35

  Mamo, Laura ^a   Fishman, Jennifer R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84993660929     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X01007004002     Document Type: Article

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