Homosocial desire in men's talk: Balancing and re-creating cultural discourses of masculinity

Language in Society

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 695-726

  Kiesling, Scott Fabius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Desire; Fraternities; Homosociality; Indirectness; Language and gender; Masculinity; Men

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644970041     PISSN: 00474045     EISSN: 14698013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047404505050268     Document Type: Review

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