Dreamboys, Meatmen and Werewolves: Visualizing erotic identities in all-male comic strips

Sexualities

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 587-599

  Padva, Gilad ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body politics; Comics; Masculinity; Pornography; Queer theory; Sigmund Freud

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144443561     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460705058395     Document Type: Article

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