'Flagging' the skin: Corporeal nationalism and the properties of belonging

Body and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-82

  Grabham, Emily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Flagging'; Aesthetic surgeries; Belonging; Nationalism; Property; Prosthesis; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 62549139250     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08100147     Document Type: Article

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