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Paths to Political Citizenship: Gay Rights, Feminism, and the Carter Presidency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2012

Claire Bond Potter
Claire Bond Potter*
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The New School
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Journal of Policy History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 95 - 114
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Copyright © Donald Critchlow and Cambridge University Press 2012

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