An uncertain balance: Negotiating theory, politics and love in academic writing

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-410

  Leggatt Cook, Chez ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

academic writing; authorial voice; doctoral thesis; ethics; love; post Lacanian psychoanalysis; reflexivity; subjectivity; i ek

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961196552     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: 14617161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353510370029     Document Type: Article

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