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Writing Same-Sex Love: Sexology and Literary Representation in Yoshiya Nobuko's Early Fiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Michiko Suzuki
Michiko Suzuki
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , August 2006 , pp. 575 - 599
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