'How to be a happy homosexual?!' Non-monogamy and governmentality in relationship manuals for gay men in the 1980s and 1990s

Sociological Review

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 571-591

  Klesse, Christian ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34547510887     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00722.x     Document Type: Article

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