This is just for me(n): How the regulation of post-feminist lingerie advertising perpetuates woman as object

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-175

  Amy Chinn, Dee ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASA; Gaze; Gossard; Heterosexuality; Offence; Underwear; Wonderbra

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349017896     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540506064742     Document Type: Article

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