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

Soderlund, Gretchen

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Title
Sex Panics and City Papers: Mass Media and Public Controversy Over the Traffic in Women
Author(s)
Soderlund, Gretchen
Issue Date
2002
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Treichler, Paula A.
Department of Study
Communications
Discipline
Communications
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Journalism
Language
eng
Abstract
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.
Graduation Semester
2002
Type of Resource
text
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