Kicking stereotypes into touch: An ethnographic account of women's rugby

Athletic Intruders: Ethnographic Research on Women, Culture, and Exercise

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 227-246

  David Howe, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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