‘EDL angels stand beside their men … not behind them’: the politics of gender and sexuality in an anti-Islam(ist) movement

Gender and Education

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 238-257

  Pilkington, Hilary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

emotion affect; ethnography; Europe; femininities; identities; masculinities; Sociology; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008217202     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2016.1237622     Document Type: Article

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