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Remapping desire

Oriented sexual subjectivity: lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s sexual subjectivity in Israeli rural space and periphery

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Pages 464-481 | Received 01 Dec 2021, Accepted 01 Aug 2022, Published online: 18 Oct 2022

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