Discourses of friendship between heterosexual women and gay men: Mythical norms and an absence of desire

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 205-224

  Shepperd, Dan ^a   Coyle, Adrian ^a   Hegarty, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Feminism; Friendship; Gender; Normativity; Queer theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952815103     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353509349604     Document Type: Article

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