Disney's modern heroine Pocahontas: Revealing age-old gender stereotypes and role discontinuity under a façade of liberation

Social Science Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 353-365

  Dundes, Lauren ^a  

^a WESTERN MARYLAND COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0041319552     PISSN: 03623319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0362-3319(01)00137-9     Document Type: Article

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