The right to be beautiful: Postfeminist identity and consumer beauty advertising

New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 37-51

  Lazar, Michelle M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230294523     Document Type: Chapter

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