Queering the Meaning of ‘Neighbourhood’: Reinterpreting the Lesbian-Queer Experience of Park Slope, Brooklyn, 1983–2008

Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 178-200

  Gieseking, Jen Jack ^a  

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Author keywords

Lesbian Community; Lower East Side; Queer Theory; Queer Woman; Urban Sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145932752     PISSN: 29478782     EISSN: 29478790     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137314352_10     Document Type: Chapter

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