Decoding femininity advertisements and their teenage readers

Gender and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 453-477

  Currie, Dawn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1177/089124397011004005     Document Type: Article

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