'You're no-one if you're not a netball girl': Rural and regional adolescent girls' negotiation of physically active identities

Annals of Leisure Research

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-37

  Mooney, Amanda ^a   Casey, Meghan ^a   Smyth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

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EID: 84882603860     PISSN: 11745398     EISSN: 21596816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2012.670961     Document Type: Article

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