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Review special : Sex and sensibility

18 May 1996

Cervical smear tests, hormone replacement therapy and other biomedical
delights receive a critical workout in a new collection of essays from the
British Sociological Association—Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body
edited by Janet Holland and Lisa Adkins (Macmillan, £14.99, ISBN 0 333
65002 6).

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