From girls into women: Scripts for sexuality and romance in Seventeen magazine, 1974-1994

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-168

  Carpenter, Laura M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HOMOSEXUALITY; MASS MEDIUM; MASTURBATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

EID: 0031865802     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499809551929     Document Type: Article

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