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Chapter 9 - Shattering the Gender Walls: Monique Wittig’s Contribution to Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

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Dominique Bourque
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Robin Truth Goodman
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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory , pp. 114 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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