But we're men aren't we!: Living history as a site of masculine identity construction

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 460-483

  Hunt, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identity; Leisure; Living history; Masculinities; Postmodernity; Reenactment

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949112999     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X08314773     Document Type: Article

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