Gender, older female bodies and autoethnography: Finding my feminist voice by telling my illness story

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 535-546

  Ettorre, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; FEMINISM; GENDER DISPARITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

EID: 29844452280     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2005.09.009     Document Type: Article

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