Flirtatious geographies: Clubs as spaces for the performance of affective heterosexualities;Geografías coqueteantes: Los clubes como espacios de la performancia de heterosexualidades afectivas

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 718-736

  Tan, Qian Hui ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Affect; Clubbing; Gender; Heterosexuality; Performance

Indexed keywords

GENDER RELATIONS; POWER RELATIONS; PUBLIC SPACE; SEXUALITY;

SINGAPORE [SOUTHEAST ASIA];

EID: 84890072378     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2012.716403     Document Type: Article

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