“Quare” studies, or (almost) everything I know about queer studies I learned from my grandmother

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-25

  Johnson, E Patrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Class; Performance; Performativity; Queer Studies; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345239317     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930128119     Document Type: Article

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