Attitudes toward domestic violence: Race and gender issues

Sex Roles

Volumn 40, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 227-247

  Locke, Lisa M ^b   Richman, Charles L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033074775     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018898921560     Document Type: Article

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