Keeping women down and out: The strip club boom and the reinforcement of male dominance

Signs

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 151-173

  Jeffreys, Sheila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 51649111264     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/588501     Document Type: Article

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