Enticing the new lad: Masculinity as a product of consumption in tobacco industry-developed lifestyle magazines

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 4-30

  Cortese, Daniel K ^a   Ling, Pamela M ^b  

^a GOVERNORS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

certitude; cigarettes; irony; lifestyle magazines; new lad; new sexism; risky behavior; semiotic analysis; tobacco industry; young men

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954466885     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X09352177     Document Type: Article

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