The emancipatory promise of the habitus: Lindy hop, the body, and social change

Ethnography

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 224-246

  Wade, Lisa ^a  

^a OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

body; Bourdieu; culture; dance; gender; habitus; inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958219002     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: 17412714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138111398231     Document Type: Article

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