Negotiating heteronormativity dialectically: Lesbian couples' display of symbols in culture

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-195

  Suter, Elizabeth A ^a   Daas, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialectics; Grounded theory; Heteronormativity lesbianism; Interviews; Nonverbal communication; Resistance; Symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548315923     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310701518443     Document Type: Article

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