The centrality of gender and ethnic identities across individuals and contexts

Social Development

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 700-719

  Turner, Kelly L ^a   Brown, Christia Spears ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic identity; Gender identity; Identity development; Identity salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448945244     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2007.00403.x     Document Type: Article

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