Collars and consumers: Changing images of american manliness and business

Beauty and Business: Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 87-108

  Turbin, Carole ^a  

^a SUNY EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315023090-10     Document Type: Chapter

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