Constructing the runaway youth problem: Boy adventurers to girl prostitutes, 1960-1978

Journal of Communication

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 330-346

  Staller, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEDIA ROLE; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0043193944     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/joc/53.2.330     Document Type: Article

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