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Reproducing the 'national home': gendering domopolitics

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Reproducing the 'national home': gendering domopolitics. / Lonergan, Gwyneth.
In: Citizenship Studies, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2018, p. 1-18.

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Lonergan G. Reproducing the 'national home': gendering domopolitics. Citizenship Studies. 2018;22(1):1-18. Epub 2017 Nov 24. doi: 10.1080/13621025.2017.1406455

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Lonergan, Gwyneth. / Reproducing the 'national home' : gendering domopolitics. In: Citizenship Studies. 2018 ; Vol. 22, No. 1. pp. 1-18.

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