"That's just a basic teen-age rule": Girls' linguistic strategies for managing the menstrual communication taboo

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 292-309

  Kissling, Elizabeth Arveda ^a  

^a EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030361625     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909889609365458     Document Type: Article

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