"Be your(Real Lesbian)Self": Mobilizing Sexual Formula Stories Through Personal (and Political) Storytelling

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-71

  Crawley, Sara L ^a   Broad, K L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coming out; Ethnomethodology; Lesbian gay; Narrative; Sexuality; Social movements

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642455800     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241603259810     Document Type: Article

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