Young women's negotiations of heterosexual conventions: Theorizing sexuality in constructions of 'the feminist'

Sociology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 827-842

  Scharff, Christina ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affect; constitutive outside; feminism; heteronormativity; repudiation; sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958467226     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038510375736     Document Type: Article

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