All the (dis)comforts of home: Place, gendered self-fashioning, and solidarity in a ballet studio

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-112

  Hamera, Judith ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ballet; Feminism; Performativity; Place; Space; Vernacular landscapes

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949238630     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930500122674     Document Type: Article

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