Biological Politics revisited: Reclaiming the body and the intra-psychic within discursive feminist psychology

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 425-430

  Ussher, Jane M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 85047690255     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353504044647     Document Type: Note

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