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Original articles: Sex and risk

Constructing sexual risk: ‘Chikan’, collapsing male authority and the emergence of women-only train carriages in Japan

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Pages 41-55 | Received 15 Jul 2011, Accepted 10 Nov 2011, Published online: 18 Jan 2012

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