"A whole stadium full": Lesbian community at Women's National Basketball Association games

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 74-83

  Dolance, Susannah ^a,b  

^a Century College   (United States)

^b Century College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASKETBALL; BISEXUALITY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LESBIAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

EID: 15544371374     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490509552259     Document Type: Article

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