The “Body Beautiful”: English Adolescents' Images of Ideal Bodies
✍ Scribed by Helga Dittmar; Barbara Lloyd; Shaun Dugan; Emma Halliwell; Neil Jacobs; Helen Cramer
- Book ID
- 110246803
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-0025
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