Performing Gender: A Content Analysis of Gender Display in Music Videos

Sex Roles

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 160-172

  Wallis, Cara ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender display; Music videos; Sex stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79751536685     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-010-9814-2     Document Type: Article

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