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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
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Producing ‘decent girls’: governmentality and the moral geographies of sexual conduct in Ireland (1922–1937)

Produciendo ‘niñas decentes’: gobermentalidad y las geografías morales de la conducta sexual en Irlanda (1922–1937)

Una Crowley Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
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Rob Kitchin Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, County Kildare, IrelandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 355-372 | Published online: 21 Jul 2008

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