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Expose the Illusions, Crack the Codes: Contextualizing Visual Media to Mold a New Reality

Cover Girl Culture: Awakening the Media Generation. By Nicole Clark, New York, Women Make Movies, 2009. 80 min. $295.00 (University Price). www.wmm.com. and The Codes of Gender: Identity & Performance in Popular Culture. By Sut Jhally, Northampton, Mass., Media Education Foundation, 2009. 72 min. (unabridged), 46 min. (abridged). $275.00 (University Price). ISBN: 1-932869-39-5. www.mediaed.org

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    Tracy L. Tylka

  2. Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, VA, USA

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Tylka, T.L., Calogero, R.M. Expose the Illusions, Crack the Codes: Contextualizing Visual Media to Mold a New Reality. Sex Roles 65, 461–468 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-011-0039-9

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