"Girls Can Wrestle Too": Gender Differences in the Consumption of a Television Wrestling Series

Sex Roles

Volumn 38, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 833-849

  Lemish, Dafna ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0040579520     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018829332270     Document Type: Article

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