Remembering and reminiscing: How individual lives are constructed in family narratives

Memory Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-58

  Fivush, Robyn ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiography; Gender; Memory; Narrative; Self

Indexed keywords

EID: 40549113682     PISSN: 17506980     EISSN: 17506999     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750698007083888     Document Type: Article

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