Skinny like you: Visual literacy, digital manipulation and young women's drive to be thin

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Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Bissell, Kimberly L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

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EID: 33645313783     PISSN: 14966603     EISSN: 14966603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/sim.6.1.002     Document Type: Article

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