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Pleasure in Slowness

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Devised for a shopping arcadeA pantomine of speed and slownessRoles of motherhood and femininity

Artist / Author Delpha Hudson & Helen Battelley
Reference D0973
Date 2004
Type DVD

Keywords

female feminine mother women's roles

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