Where has class gone? The pervasiveness of class in girls' physical activity in a rural town

Sport, Education and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-18

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Concerted cultivation; Embodied subjectivities; Ethnographic portraits; Girls' physical activity; Relational geographies; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885043908     PISSN: 13573322     EISSN: 14701243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13573322.2011.619525     Document Type: Article

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