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Gender, Place & Culture
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Gender performances as spatial acts: (fe)male Thai migrant sex workers in Denmark

Performances de género como actos espaciales: trabajadores y trabajadoras sexuales inmigrantes tailandeses en Dinamarca

Pages 37-52 | Published online: 28 Oct 2011

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