Media Misogyny: Demonizing “Violent” Girls and Women

Making Trouble: Cultural Constructions of Crime, Deviance, and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 115-140

  Chesney Lind, Meda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203786628-9     Document Type: Chapter

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