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Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire

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Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire. / Hird, Derek.
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities. ed. / Vivienne Lo; Chris Berry; Liping Guo. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2019. p. 66-80 (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies).

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Hird, D 2019, Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire. in V Lo, C Berry & L Guo (eds), Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities. Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 66-80.

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Hird, D. (2019). Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire. In V. Lo, C. Berry, & L. Guo (Eds.), Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities (pp. 66-80). (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies). Routledge.

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Hird D. Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire. In Lo V, Berry C, Guo L, editors, Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. 2019. p. 66-80. (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies).

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Hird, Derek. / Sentiments like Water : Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire. Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities. editor / Vivienne Lo ; Chris Berry ; Liping Guo. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2019. pp. 66-80 (Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies).

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