Lara’s lethal and loaded mission: Transposing reproduction and destruction

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 21-45

  Herbst, Claudia ^a  

^a PRATT INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 85015069358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781403981240     Document Type: Chapter

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