LGBT aging and rhetorical silence

Sexuality Research and Social Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 65-78

  Brown, Maria T ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminist gerontology; Gerontology; Human services; LGBT elders; Queer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649111625     PISSN: 15536610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/srsp.2009.6.4.65     Document Type: Article

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