Sex acts beyond boundaries and binaries: A feminist challenge for self care in performance studies

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-219

  Bell, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminism; Foucault; Gender; Performance Studies; Sex Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 74949096304     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930500271752     Document Type: Article

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