'Women of substance': Commodification and fetishization in contemporary advertising within the Indian 'urbanscape'

Social Semiotics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-51

  Munshi, Shoma ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84857953802     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350339709360368     Document Type: Article

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