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A different future? Armenian identity through the prism of trauma, nationalism and gender

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Arlene Voski Avakian*
Affiliation:
Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, avakian@wost.umass.edu

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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 2010

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