“I'm Not a Politics Person”: Teenage Girls, Oppositional Consciousness, and the Meaning of Politics

Politics and Gender

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-352

  Taft, Jessica K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 43249152497     PISSN: 1743923X     EISSN: 17439248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1743923X06060119     Document Type: Article

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