'Ballet it's too whitey': Discursive hierarchies of high school dance spaces and the constitution of embodied feminine subjectivities

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-46

  Atencio, Matthew ^a   Wright, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body; Dance; Gender; Race; Space; Youth culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249084808     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250802213123     Document Type: Article

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