Psychoanalytic concepts of fatherhood: Patriarchal paradoxes and the presence of an absent authority

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 113-139

  Freeman, Tabitha ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 44849134812     PISSN: 15240657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15240650801935156     Document Type: Article

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