The queer activity of extreme male bodybuilding: Gender dissidence, auto-eroticism and hysteria

Social Semiotics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-65

  Richardson, Niall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abjection; Gender dissidence; Hysteria; Onanism; Queer

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247649933     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1035033042000202924     Document Type: Article

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