Is Penélope to J. Lo as Culture Is to Nature?: Eurocentric Approaches to "Latin" Beauties

From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-148

  Valdivia, Angharad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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