"Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town

This paper draws upon Hubbard's (1999, p. 57) term ‘scary heterosexualities,’ that is non-normative heterosexuality, in the context of the rural drawing on data from fieldwork in the remote Western Australian mining town of Kalgoorlie. Our focus is ‘the skimpie’ – a female barmaid who serves in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pini, Barbara, Mayes, Robyn, Boyer, K.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16965