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This collection, drawn from twelve years of the influential journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, offers a groundbreaking advance in thinking and theorizing

An adequate analysis of experiences and situations specific to women, especially mothering, requires consideration of women's difference. A focus on women's dif

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