Birds on the wire: Troping teenage girlhood through telephony in mid-twentieth-century US media culture

Cultural Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 568-601

  Kearney, Mary Celeste ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Containment culture; Girls; Mid twentieth century U.S. media; Teenagers; Telephone

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244453948     PISSN: 09502386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09502380500365499     Document Type: Article

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