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Equality on Male Terms or Reconstruction of Gender Roles? Association 9 and the Finnish Sex Role Ideology of the 1960s

Arja TurunenDepartment of Music, Art and Culture, University of Jyväskylä, Jyvaskyla, FinlandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Received 28 Sep 2023, Accepted 06 Feb 2024, Published online: 01 Apr 2024

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