Gender and Suicide Method: Do Women Avoid Facial Disfiguration?

Sex Roles

Volumn 65, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 867-879

  Callanan, Valerie J ^a   Davis, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Firearms; Gendered explanations; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 82255179530     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-0043-0     Document Type: Article

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