Crisis and safety: The asexual in sexusociety

Sexualities

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 444-461

  Przybylo, Ela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

asexuality; performativity; postmodernity; sexusociety; transgression

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051681369     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460711406461     Document Type: Article

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