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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sex Panics and City Papers: Mass Media and Public Controversy Over the Traffic in Women

Abstract

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A final chapter considers a controversy over prostitution and trafficking in the 1990s by analyzing a debate over commercial sex advertisements in a local alternative weekly. Discourse analysis of this debate suggests the persistence of a symbolic connection between mass distribution media and a perceived traffic in women.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Communications
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Soderlund, Gretchen
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Treichler, Paula A.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI3070442
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86560

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Soderlund, Gretchen. Sex Panics and City Papers: Mass Media and Public Controversy Over the Traffic in Women. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86560