Gendering of products: in industrial design

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Akata, Akanay
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Industrial design
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13778
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Akata, “Gendering of products: in industrial design ,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2003.
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