Letters to Louis: Marital dissolution through the social construction of lived experience

Journal of Divorce and Remarriage

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-32

  Powell, Heather L ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoethnography; Communication; Divorce; Letters; Marriage; Oral history; Prose; Symbolic interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651319690     PISSN: 10502556     EISSN: 15404811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2011.534393     Document Type: Article

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