Gender differences in new partnership choices and constraints for older widows and widowers

Intimacy in Later Life

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 65-83

  Davidson, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85082580596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203788240-4     Document Type: Chapter

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