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The ‘nonmenstrual woman’ in the new millennium? Discourses on menstrual suppression in the first decade of Extended Cycle Oral Contraception use in Canada

Pages 620-633 | Received 08 May 2013, Accepted 17 Feb 2014, Published online: 16 Apr 2014

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