Single women in popular culture: The limits of postfeminism

Single Women in Popular Culture: The Limits of Postfeminism

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-242

  Taylor, Anthea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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