Content patterns and effects surrounding sex-role stereotyping on television and film

Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 342-361

  Smith, Stacy L ^a   Granados, Amy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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