Exercising Options: Holistic health and technical beauty in gendered accounts of bodywork

Sociological Quarterly

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  MacNevin, Audrey ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0041829244     PISSN: 00380253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1533-8525.2003.tb00558.x     Document Type: Article

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