Screwing With Our Embodiment: A Response to Thorneycroft’s Re-Imagining of the Social Model
By: Brian Watermeyer and Clare Harvey
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1342 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 565 - 577
Submitted on: Jul 15, 2025
Accepted on: Oct 6, 2025
Published on: Oct 27, 2025
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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