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- 1 2 Michael Worton, Nana Wilson-Tagoe, National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-cultural Context, Routledge Cavendish, 2004, p13. ISBN 1-84472-017-9
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- 1 2 Gen Doy, Picturing the self: changing views of the subject in visual culture, I.B.Tauris, 2004, p67. ISBN 1-85043-412-3
- Riding, Alan. "Dead But Not Forgotten". New York Times. 16 Apr. 1997
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