Muted Masculinity as an Outsider Strategy: Gender Sharing in Ethnographic Work with Wives of Professional Athletes

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 601-611

  Ortiz, Steven M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0742271473     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2003.26.4.601     Document Type: Article

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