The Purity Wars: Making Sense of Moral Militancy

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 409-436

  Hunt, Alan ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

class; feminism; gender; moral regulation; sexual purity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039104760     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480699003004002     Document Type: Article

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