Spicing it up: Sexual entrepreneurs and the sex inspectors

New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 52-67

  Harvey, Laura ^a   Gill, Rosalind ^b  

^a London ^*

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230294523     Document Type: Chapter

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