The Three Faces of Eve: The post-war housewife, melodrama, and home 1

Feminist Media Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 7-25

  Lloyd, Justine ^a   Johnson, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1080/1468077032000080103     Document Type: Article

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