Flipping Kitty: Transnational transgressions of Japanese cute

Medi@sia: Global Media/tion in and out of Context

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 207-223

  Yano, Christine R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 84904805033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203019016     Document Type: Chapter

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