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Country and Region Reports: South Africa

Persistent pasts, present struggles, imagined futures: Gender geographies in South Africa after apartheid

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Pages 1243-1252 | Received 13 Dec 2018, Accepted 31 May 2019, Published online: 02 Jul 2019

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