Having the balls, having it all? Sport and constructions of undergraduate laddishness

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 481-500

  Dempster, Steve ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hegemonic masculinity; Higher education; Laddishness; Sport; Student experience

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449449750     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250802392299     Document Type: Article

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