Multiple bodies: Sportswomen, Soccer and Sexuality

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-20

  Cox, Barbara ^a   Thompson, Shona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

body; femininity; heterosexuality; lesbianism; women's soccer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998044358     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101269000035001001     Document Type: Article

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