'My sexual self, I stifled it': Sexual subjectivities among young Portuguese women

Culture, Health and Sexuality

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 431-442

  Costa, Cecila ^a,b   Nogueira, Conceição ^a   López, Félix ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Portugal; Sexual subjectivity; Sexuality; Young women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; GUILT; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MORALITY; POLITICS; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HEALTH; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SEXUALITY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PORTUGAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651011805     PISSN: 13691058     EISSN: 14645351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13691050802710253     Document Type: Article

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