"I'm metro, not gay!": A discursive analysis of men's accounts of makeup use on YouTube

Journal of Men's Studies

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 209-226

  Hall, Matthew ^a   Gough, Brendan ^a   Seymour Smith, Sarah ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; makeup use; masculinity; metrosexuality; online identities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897584429     PISSN: 10608265     EISSN: 19330251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3149/jms.2003.209     Document Type: Article

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