Sport, Spinal Cord Injury, Embodied Masculinities, and the Dilemmas of Narrative Identity

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 258-285

  Sparkes, Andrew C ^a   Smith, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

identity; masculinities; narrative; spinal cord injury; sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990318132     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X02004003003     Document Type: Article

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