Intimate Partner Violence Within Gay Male Couples: Dimensionalizing Partner Violence Among Cuban Gay Men

Sexuality and Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-178

  Santaya, Pedro O Téllez ^a   Walters, Andrew S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; Gay men; Intimate partner violence; Same sex couples

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955823421     PISSN: 10955143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12119-011-9087-0     Document Type: Article

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