Queer consumption and commercial hospitality: Communitas, myths and the production of liminoid space

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

Volumn 27, Issue , 2007, Pages 163-174

  Lugosi, Peter ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communities; Consumption; Homosexuals; Hospitality services

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249158872     PISSN: 0144333X     EISSN: 17586720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443330710741093     Document Type: Article

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