In and out of love with hip-hop: saliency of sexual scripts for young adult African American women in hip-hop and Black-oriented television

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1165-1179

  Coleman, M Nicole ^a   Butler, Ebony O ^a   Long, Amanda M ^a   Fisher, Felicia D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; media; sexual scripts; sexuality; USA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOVE; MUSIC; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEVISION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LOVE; MUSIC; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEVISION;

EID: 84969256157     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691058.2016.1175029     Document Type: Article

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