Telling stories: Reflexivity, queer theory, and autoethnography

Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 108-116

  Adams, Tony E ^a   Holman Jones, Stacy ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

autoethnography; queer theory; reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955009721     PISSN: 15327086     EISSN: 1552356X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1532708611401329     Document Type: Article

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