Narrating singleness: Life stories and deficit identities

Narrative Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 197-215

  Reynolds, Jill ^a   Taylor, Stephanie ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coupledom; Deficit identity; Discursive; Narrative; Single women

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646738439     PISSN: 13876740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ni.15.2.02rey     Document Type: Article

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