"Liberation" vs. "purity": Representations of Saudi women in the American press and American women in the Saudi press

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 259-276

  Mishra, Smeeta ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Imperialism; Liberation; Nationalism; Purity; Representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547599666     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170701490849     Document Type: Article

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