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“No need for a man about the house”: Social and legal responses to women who renounce men

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Wallbank, J. “No need for a man about the house”: Social and legal responses to women who renounce men. Liverpool Law Rev 20, 229–252 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02799318

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