Because women will always be women and men are just getting older: Intersecting discourses of ageing and gender

Current Sociology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 879-896

  Wilińska, Monika ^a  

^a JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

discourse of age; discourse of gender; intersectionality; Poland

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649420119     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: 14617064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392110376030     Document Type: Article

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