‘I didn’t know that i could feel this relaxed in my body’: Using visual methods to research bisexual people’s embodied experiences of identity and space

Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 255-270

  Bowes Catton, Helen ^c   Barker, Meg ^a   Richards, Christina ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Charing Cross National Gender Identity Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

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EID: 84920878793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203829134     Document Type: Chapter

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