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Valley Girl

Koa Beck

A, like, cultural study of LA's suburban step-daughter.

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    Author of WHITE FEMINISM. Alan Jutzi Fellow at The Huntington. Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School.

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