The sexual games of the body politic: Fantasy and state violence in Northern Ireland

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-27

  Aretxaga, Begona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; LITERATURE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; POLITICS; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUNISHMENT; RAPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

ANECDOTES; COERCION; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; NORTHERN IRELAND; POLITICS; PRISONERS; PUNISHMENT; RAPE; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0035293053     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005630716511     Document Type: Article

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