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Fat, gorillas and misogyny: women's history in science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Dorinda Outram
Affiliation:
University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland

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Essay reviews
Copyright
Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1991

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