Performance, ethnography, and history: An analysis of displays by female bathers in the 1920s

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-181

  Latham, Angela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

1920s; Display; Ethnography; Historiography; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937267893     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10462939709366180     Document Type: Article

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