The rhetoric of "family values": Scapegoating, utopia, and the privatization of social responsibility

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 387-419

  Cloud, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 0032268449     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570319809374617     Document Type: Article

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