Living the image: A quantitative approach to delineating masculinities

Sex Roles

Volumn 55, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 621-632

  Smiler, Andrew P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Gender roles; Masculinity; Social identity; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845644037     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-006-9118-8     Document Type: Article

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