Contradictions and praxis contextualized by wartime deployment: Wives' perspectives revealed through relational dialectics

Communication Monographs

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 421-442

  Sahlstein, Erin ^a   Maguire, Katheryn C ^b   Timmerman, Lindsay ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deployment; Marriage; Relational dialectics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70949093556     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750903300239     Document Type: Article

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