Class and feminine excess: The strange case of Anna Nicole Smith

Feminist Review

Volumn , Issue 81, 2005, Pages 74-94

  Brown, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anna Nicole Smith; Beauty; Body and cultural capital; Class and gender; Female grotesque; White trash

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844542877     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400240     Document Type: Review

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