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Culture, Health & Sexuality
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Gender, self and pleasure: young women's discourse on masturbation in contemporary Shanghai

Pei Yuxin Department of Sociology and Social Work, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, People's Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Petula Ho Sik Ying Department of Social Work and Social, Administration, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Pages 515-528 | Received 12 Oct 2008, Accepted 20 Mar 2009, Published online: 12 Jun 2009

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