Click a donor: Viking masculinity on the line

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-30

  Kroløkke, Charlotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computer mediated discourses; Reproduction; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 65849369072     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540508099701     Document Type: Article

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