Women and the internet: The natural history of a research project

Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 3-27

  Scott, Anne ^a   Semmens, Lesley ^b   Willoughby, Lynette ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Metropolitan University   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203977019-8     Document Type: Chapter

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