Feminist attitudes and coping resources as correlates of lesbian internalized heterosexism

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 369-389

  Szymanski, Dawn M ^a   Chung, Y Barry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counselling; Gay; Homonegativism; Internalized homophobia

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038041109     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353503013003008     Document Type: Article

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