The health and well-being implications of emotion work undertaken by gay sperm donors

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 517-533

  Riggs, Damien W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion work; Gay sperm donors; Health and well being; Heterosexism; Thematic analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449396950     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353509342844     Document Type: Article

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