The Romantic Imaginary: Compulsory Coupledom and Single Existence

Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 130-145

  Wilkinson, Eleanor ^a  

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Author keywords

Early Thirty; Female Sexual Dysfunction; Romantic Love; Romantic Relationship; Sexual Desire

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145943694     PISSN: 29478782     EISSN: 29478790     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137002785_8     Document Type: Chapter

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