Homemaking and mature age gay men 'down-under': Paradox, intimacy, subjectivities, spatialities, and scale

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 569-584

  Waitt, Gordon ^a   Gorman Murray, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Homemaking; Mature age gay men; Paradox; Spatial

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER ISSUE; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; METROPOLITAN AREA; SPATIAL COGNITION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND; TOWNSVILLE;

EID: 34648837037     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663690701562305     Document Type: Article

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