Performing rodeo queen culture: Competition, athleticism and excessive feminine masquerade

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 182-202

  Shields, Vickie Rutledge ^a   Coughlin, Colleen ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Masquerade; Performativity; PRCA; Rodeo queen; Subculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958317286     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462930009366293     Document Type: Article

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