"Scary" heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town

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"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
Subjects:	Heterosexuality Sex-workers Australia Mining Rural
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16965

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