Investigating queer future meanings: Destructive perceptions of "the harder path"

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 561-586

  Goltz, Dustin ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Future; Heteronormativity; Performance; Queer

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649091269     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800408329238     Document Type: Article

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