Let's Get Real? Feminism, Constructionism and the Realism/Relativism Debate

Feminism & Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 519-530

  Speer, Susan A ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84996167341     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353500010004014     Document Type: Article

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