Negotiating desire and sexual subjectivity: Narratives of young lesbian avengers

Sexualities

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 183-200

  Ussher, Jane M ^a   Mooney Somers, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

desire; lesbian; narrative; sexuality; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993709395     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346000003002005     Document Type: Article

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