Reading the texts: Postmodern feminism and the ‘doing’ of

Practice and Research in Social Work: Postmodern Feminist Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 39-62

  Trinder, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203981979-10     Document Type: Chapter

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