Riding the dialectical waves of gay political economy: A story from Birmingham's commercial gay scene

Antipode

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-235

  Bassi, Camila ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENDER; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

BIRMINGHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33644971982     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00577.x     Document Type: Article

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