"No boundaries"?: Girls' interactive, online learning about femininities

Youth and Society

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-28

  Kelly, Deirdre M ^a   Pomerantz, Shauna ^a   Currie, Dawn H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computers; Gender and identity; Girls' studies; Internet and youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746610902     PISSN: 0044118X     EISSN: 15528499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X05283482     Document Type: Article

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