Gender, Rhetoric, and Power: Toward a Model of Reciprocal Empowerment

Women's Studies in Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 139-172

  Darlington, Patricia S E ^a   Mulvaney, Becky Michele ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84982969006     PISSN: 07491409     EISSN: 2152999X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2002.10162444     Document Type: Article

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