‘Death to the Prancing Prince’: Effeminacy, Sport Discourses and the Salvation of Men's Dancing

Body & Society

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 63-86

  Adams, Mary Louise ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34247664591     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X05058020     Document Type: Article

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