Chaos, order, and collaboration: Toward a feminist conceptualization of edgework

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 678-708

  Newmahr, Staci ^a  

^a BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

edgework; feminism; gender; masculinist; risk; sadomasochism

Indexed keywords

EID: 83355165177     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241611425177     Document Type: Article

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