"I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships

Women's Studies International Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 67-74

  Hayfield, Nikki ^a   Clarke, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; GENDER DISPARITY; GENDER IDENTITY; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; SEXUALITY; WOMENS STATUS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84856781356     PISSN: 02775395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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