Lean mean fighting Queens: Drag in the world of Mexican professional wrestling

Sexualities

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 275-285

  Levi, Heather ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Masculinity; Mexico; Performance; Ransgender; Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041288328     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346098001003003     Document Type: Article

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