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Being in Public: The Threat and Promise of Stranger Contact

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Davina Cooper
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Winter 2007 , pp. 203 - 232
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2007 

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