Soft-boiled masculinity: Renegotiating gender and racial ideologies in the Promise Keepers movement

Gender and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 423-444

  Heath, Melanie ^a  

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Author keywords

Gender and race relations; Ideologies; Masculinity; Religious movements; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038464663     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243203017003008     Document Type: Review

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