Imagining bisexual futures: Positive, non-normative later life

Journal of Bisexuality

Volumn 11, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 245-270

  Jones, Rebecca L ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Bicon; Bisexual; Creative methods; Future; Heteronormativity; Imagining; Later life; Life course; Non normative; Normativity; Pictures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959263532     PISSN: 15299716     EISSN: 15299724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15299716.2011.571988     Document Type: Article

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