'Building a wail around themselves': Exploring adolescent masculinity and abjection with photo-biographical research

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-46

  Blackbeard, David ^a   Lindegger, Graham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Abjection; Auto photography; Dialogical self; Dominant social norms; Embedded narratives; Gender; Homophobia; Masculinity; Microcultural contexts; Non relational heterosexuality; Photo ellcltation interviews; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347343710     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630703700103     Document Type: Article

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