Just say no? The use of conversation analysis in developing a feminist perspective on sexual refusal

Discourse and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 293-316

  Kitzinger, Celia ^a   Frith, Hannah ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conversation analysis; Date rape; Dispreferreds; Feminism; Refusal skills; Young women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033243165     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926599010003002     Document Type: Review

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