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    Lucie Cantin

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Paper given as guest speaker at the Mini-Symposium on the Woman organized by the ORI (Organized Research Initiative) inWomen and the Image, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, California, April 28, 1992.

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Cantin, L. Femininity: From passion to an ethics of the impossible. Topoi 12, 127–136 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00821850

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