Intimate relationships: Learning from later life experience

Age Matters: Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 123-153

  Connidis, Ingrid Arnet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203943434     Document Type: Chapter

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