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A Room of One’s Own?: Using period trackers to escape menstrual stigma

By: Amanda Karlsson  
Open Access
|Jun 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2019-0017 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108
Language: English
Page range: 111 - 123
Published on: Jun 28, 2019
Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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