Illness, genre, and gender in contemporary television fiction: Representations of female cancer in sex and the city and desperate housewives

Women's Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 670-691

  Fernández Morales, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

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EID: 85055369463     PISSN: 00497878     EISSN: 15477045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00497870903021752     Document Type: Article

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