"Nowhere else to go": Gidget and the construction of adolescent femininity

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 341-356

  Nash, Ilana ^a  

^a Mt Holyoke College

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EID: 33750052776     PISSN: 14680777     EISSN: 14715902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1468077022000034835     Document Type: Article

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