Loveless frump as hip and sexy party girl: A reevaluation of the old-maid stereotype

Library Quarterly

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 287-301

  Adams, Katherine C ^a  

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DOI: 10.1086/603194     Document Type: Article

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