Gender Politics in Transitional Societies

2010-07-30
Ergun Özbolat, Ayça
Ayata, Ayşe
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A. Ergun Özbolat and A. Ayata, “Gender Politics in Transitional Societies,” 2010, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/76943.
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