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Gender, Place & Culture
A Journal of Feminist Geography
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Negotiating boundaries: the sex work identities of ‘bar girls’ in Nazareth, Ethiopia

La negociación de límites: las identidades del trabajo sexual de las ‘chicas de bar’ en Nazareth, Etiopía

Pages 217-233 | Published online: 07 Mar 2011

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