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                  <p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_6">Written with Laura Ellingson<br /></p>

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                  <p class="paragraph_style_6">2010 publication date<br /></p>

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                  <p class="paragraph_style_6">Winner of the 2012 Book Award, Feminist Division, National Communication Association<br /></p>

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                  <p class="paragraph_style_8">Baylor University Press <br /></p>

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                  <p style="padding-top: 0pt; " class="paragraph_style_9">Elizabeth Flynn, Patty Sotirin &amp;  Ann Brady, Editors<br /></p>

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                  <p class="paragraph_style_9">2011 publication date<br /></p>

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