'Freaky is just how I get down': Investigating the fluidity of minority ethnic feminine subjectivities in dance

Leisure Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-327

  Atencio, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse; Embodied subjectivities; Gender; Post structuralism; Race; Space

Indexed keywords

CULTURE; ETHNIC MINORITY; FEMINISM; GENDER; INNER CITY AREA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; YOUNG POPULATION;

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EID: 48949116308     PISSN: 02614367     EISSN: 14664496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02614360802018780     Document Type: Article

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