Driving down participation: Homophobic bullying as a deterrent to doing sport

Sport and Gender Identities: Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 122-139

  Brackenridge, Celia ^a   Rivers, Ian ^b   Gough, Brendan ^c   Llewellyn, Karen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d YORK ST JOHN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203646649     Document Type: Chapter

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