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<li>Press releases from the Department of Health, Health Education Authority, Health Promotion Wales</li>
<li>"Problems? With your boyfriend or girlfriend? With your husband, wife or children?" Capital Radio booklet</li>
<li>"Sexuality in Older Women" paper by Sally Greengross</li>
<li>"Beyond Androgyny: Some Presumptuous Prescriptions for a Liberated Sexual Identity" paper by Sandra Lipsitz Bem</li>
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