Divergent Narratives in the Imagining of the Home amongst Middle-Class Consumers: Aesthetics, Comfort and the Symbolic Boundaries of Self and Home

Journal of Sociology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-412

  Woodward, Ian ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

antisemitism; hate speech; hate violence; heterosexism; in terrorem

Indexed keywords

EID: 25844464964     PISSN: 14407833     EISSN: 17412978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004869003394005     Document Type: Article

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