Navigating embodied lesbian cultural space: Toward a lesbian habitus

Space and Culture

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-252

  Rooke, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities; Habitus; Homonormativity; Lesbian; Queer; Urban

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049484070     PISSN: 12063312     EISSN: 15528308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1206331206298790     Document Type: Review

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