Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary‐making of an everyday exercise environment

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  2020

• Venue

  Transactions (Institute of British Geographers)

• Publication date

  2020-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1111/tran.12347
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