Queer wordplay: Language and laughter in the "boys of boise" morals panic

Journal of Historical Sociology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-487

  Schneider, Jen ^a  

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EID: 57649186945     PISSN: 09521909     EISSN: 14676443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6443.2008.00346.x     Document Type: Article

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