Women outdoors: Advertising, controversy and disputing feminism in the 1990s

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-55

  Winship, Janice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

advertising; billboards; controversy; feminisms; Nissan; public and private; Wallis; women; Wonderbra

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993660978     PISSN: 13678779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136787790000300103     Document Type: Article

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