"unity admirable but not necessarily heeded": Going rates and gender boundaries in the straight edge hardcore music scene

Gender and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-408

  Mullaney, Jamie L ^a  

^a GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderwork; Gender; Going rate; Hardcore; Punk; Straight edge

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248379070     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243207299615     Document Type: Article

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