Naked Power: The Practice of Stripping as a Confidence Game

Sexualities

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 49-66

  Pasko, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

confidence game; gender; sex work; sexuality; symbolic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993661266     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460702005001003     Document Type: Article

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