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    Rights statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women:A Cultural Review on 16/07/2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021

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Killing ourselves is not subversive: Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression

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Killing ourselves is not subversive: Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression. / Spiers, Emily.
In: Women: A Cultural Review, Vol. 26, No. 1-2, 2015, p. 1-21.

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Spiers, E 2015, 'Killing ourselves is not subversive: Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression', Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 26, no. 1-2, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021

APA

Spiers, E. (2015). Killing ourselves is not subversive: Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression. Women: A Cultural Review, 26(1-2), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021

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Spiers E. Killing ourselves is not subversive: Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression. Women: A Cultural Review. 2015;26(1-2):1-21. Epub 2015 Jul 16. doi: 10.1080/09574042.2015.1035021

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Spiers, Emily. / Killing ourselves is not subversive : Riot Grrrl from zine to screen and the commodification of female transgression. In: Women: A Cultural Review. 2015 ; Vol. 26, No. 1-2. pp. 1-21.

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