Should a feminist dance tango? Some reflections on the experience and politics of passion1

Feminist Theory

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 3-21

  Davis, Kathy ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; affective dissonance; feminist killjoy; gender as performance; postcolonial exoticism; queer tango; affective turn

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925637973     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: 17412773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464700114562525     Document Type: Article

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