Becoming a sexual being: Overcoming constraints on female sexuality

Sexualities

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 289-311

  Wagner, Brooke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Femininity; Gender norms; Intimacy; Sexuality; Swinging

Indexed keywords

EID: 66349125884     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460709103892     Document Type: Article

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