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Women in the Arctic: Gendering Coloniality in Travel Narratives from the Far North, 1907–1930

Silke Reeploeg
Scandinavian Studies, March 2019, 91 (1-2) 182-204; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/sca.91.1-2.0182
Silke Reeploeg
University of Karlstad
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