Raising the bar on the body beautiful: An analysis of the body image concerns of homosexual men

Body Image

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 45-55

  Levesque, Maurice J ^a   Vichesky, David R ^a  

^a ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body image; Gay community; Gay men; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 33344455398     PISSN: 17401445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2005.10.007     Document Type: Article

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