Cosmo Girls and Playboys: Japanese Femininity and Masculinity in Gendered Magazines

This study investigates a well-explored topic, the relationship between gender and language, with a unique set of data--Japanese translations of highly gendered discourse contexts in Cosmopolitan and Playboy magazines. In both magazines, being attractive, heterosexual (wo)men is one of the ultimate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Matsugu, Yuka
Other Authors: Jones, Kimberly
Language:EN
Published: The University of Arizona. 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193984