Growing Up with a Lesbian Mother: A Theoretically-based Analysis of Personal Experience

Sexualities

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 395-408

  Paechter, Carrie ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adolescence; autobiography; coming out; education; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993729356     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346000003004002     Document Type: Article

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