Identity foreclosure: Women's experiences of widowhood as expressed in autobiographical accounts

Ageing and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 533-551

  Van Den Hoonaard, Deborah Kestin ^a  

^a ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Autobiographies; Identity; Widowhood; Widows; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000577499     PISSN: 0144686X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X97006582     Document Type: Article

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