Housing, Domestic Labour, Household Technologies
- ISBN-10
- 0907427308
- ISBN-13
- 9780907427308
- Category
- Home economics
- Pages
- 35
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Author
- Alison Ravetz
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