Television cartoons: Do children notice it's a boy's world?

Sex Roles

Volumn 37, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 415-432

  Thompson, Teresa L ^a   Zerbinos, Eugenia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

^b NONE

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