Portrayal of women in sexuality and marriage and family textbooks: A content analysis of photographs from the 1970s to the 1990s

Sex Roles

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 309-318

  Low, Jason ^a   Sherrard, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033068178     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018859207448     Document Type: Article

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