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Sex and the Archives: Current Work on Subordinate Identities and Early Modern Cultural Formation

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Melissa Mowry
Affiliation:
St. John's University

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2 For one version of this debate, see the exchange between Karras, Ruth Mazo, der Meer, Theo Van, and Freccero, Carla in Journal of Women's History 11, no. 2 (1999): 159–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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