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- ↑ Moon, Michael (January 1998). A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol . Duke University Press. p. 88. ISBN 0-8223-2173-4.
- ↑ Radner, Hilary; Luckett, Moya (1999). Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s. University of Minnesota Press. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-8166-3351-7.
