Past the "perfect kind of age"? Styling selves and relationships in over-50s dating advertisements

Journal of Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 9-30

  Coupland, Justine ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034359943     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2000.tb02850.x     Document Type: Article

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