From deviance to normalcy: Women as sexual aggressors

Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-9

  Anderson, Peter B ^a   Melson, Dyan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGGRESSIVENESS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVIATION; STEREOTYPY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3242805248     PISSN: 15455556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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