I can get any job and feel like a butterfly! Symbolic violence in the TV advertising of Jenny Craig

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-47

  Torrens, Kathleen M ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0009436183     PISSN: 01968599     EISSN: 15524612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0196859998022001004     Document Type: Article

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