Students who strip: The benefits of alternate identities for managing stigma

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-279

  Trautner, Mary Nell ^a   Collett, Jessica L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance; Interaction; Sex work; Stigma; Stripping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952838307     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2010.33.2.257     Document Type: Article

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