Accounting for Difference: Commuter Wives and the Master Narrative of Marriage

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-64

  Bergen, Karla Mason ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

Account making; Commuter Marriage; Distance Relationships; Master Narrative; Personal Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951249011     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880903483565     Document Type: Article

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