Girls in groups: The preps and the sex mob try out for womanhood

Geographies of Girlhood: Identities In-Between

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 69-83

  Bettis, Pamela J ^a   Jordan, Debra ^b   Montgomery, Diane ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612632     Document Type: Chapter

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