Kindergarten theory: Childhood, affect, critical thought

Feminist Theory

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 241-254

  Caselli, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aesthetics; affect; childhood; critical theory; experience; feminist theory; literary modernism; politics; psychoanalysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650124339     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700110376276     Document Type: Article

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