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The New Woman as a Boy: Female Masculinity in Ellen Idström’s Tvillingsystrarna

Maria Andersson
Scandinavian Studies, September 2016, 88 (3) 295-318; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.88.3.0295
Maria Andersson
Stockholm University
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