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Corseting The Body: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Its Persistence and Resistance in The Lives of Girls and Women

Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body and Culture: The Developmental Theory of Embodiment. By Nova Piran, Cambridge, MA, Academic Press, 2017. 336 pp. $50.96 (paper). ISBN: 978-0-12-805410-9

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Stubbs, M.L. Corseting The Body: An Integrative Approach to Understanding Its Persistence and Resistance in The Lives of Girls and Women. Sex Roles 79, 618–620 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-018-0954-0

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