Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook: A gendered ritual response to social crises of the postwar era

Journal of Communication Inquiry

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 332-345

  Horner, Jennifer R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 26044481870     PISSN: 01968599     EISSN: 15524612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0196859900024003006     Document Type: Article

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