“What are those little girls made of?”: The Powerpuff Girls and consumer culture

Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 205-219

  Van Fuqua, Joy ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315015545     Document Type: Chapter

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