Introduction: Long Lives, Silent Witnesses—Elderly Women in the Past

Journal of Family History

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 196-201

  Stavenuiter, Monique ^a   Bijsterveld, Karin ^a  

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EID: 84992792296     PISSN: 03631990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/036319900002500204     Document Type: Editorial

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