Consuming Orientalism: Images of Asian/American women in multicultural advertising

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-91

  Kim, Minjeong ^a   Chung, Angie Y ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertisements; Asian Americans; Consumption culture; Gender; Globalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244370385     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-005-2631-1     Document Type: Article

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