Metrosexuality: See the bright light of commodification shine! watch yanqui masculinity made over!

The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 105-122

  Miller, Toby ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780312376178     Document Type: Chapter

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