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Sexual Harassment: Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2018

Virginia Sapiro
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 1053 - 1066
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