'Taking it to heart': Girls and the meanings of violence

The Meanings of Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 71-89

  Burman, Michele ^a   Brown, Jane ^a   Batchelor, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203986479-11     Document Type: Chapter

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