Disciplining bodies: The aging experiences of older heterosexual and gay men

Generations

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 36-42

  Slevin, Kathleen F ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

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