Queer(y)ing the straight researcher: The relationship(?) between researcher identity and anti-normative knowledge

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-165

  Allen, Louisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anti normative knowledge; Heteronormativity; Identity politics; Queer straight; Subjectification

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952855255     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353509355146     Document Type: Article

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