Climacteric redux?: (Re)medicalizing the male nenopause

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-529

  Marshall, Barbara L ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Andropause; Masculinity; Sexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249731454     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X05284224     Document Type: Article

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