Marketing the eikaiwa wonderland: Ideology, akogare, and gender alterity in English conversation school advertising in Japan

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-130

  Bailey, Keiron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; GENDER; IDEOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 33644764665     PISSN: 02637758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/d418     Document Type: Article

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