The social geography of gender-switching in virtual environments on the internet

Virtual Gender: Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 265-285

  Roberts, Lynne D ^a   Parks, Malcolm R ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 85069581620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203977019-24     Document Type: Chapter

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