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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
dc:descriptionA 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
thesis:*- 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
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Soderlund, Gretchen
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Treichler, Paula A.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3070442
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86560