The "real Alaskan": Nostalgia and rural masculinity in the "last frontier"

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 63-85

  Hogan, Maureen P ^a,b   Pursell, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Frontier; Nostalgia; Rural masculinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649102778     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06291892     Document Type: Article

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