Spade doesn't look exactly starved: Country music and the negotiation of Women's domesticity in cold war Los Angeles

A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 24-43

  La Chapelle, Peter ^a  

^a Wilson College   (United States)

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