The treatment of gay and lesbian fiction for young adults in selected prominent reviewing media

Collection Building

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-16

  Rothbauer, Paulette M ^a   Mckechnie, Lynne E f ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Continuous improvement; Health and safety; Modelling; Operations management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986146109     PISSN: 01604953     EISSN: 20545592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01604950010310848     Document Type: Review

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