Making sense of male rape: Constructions of gender, sexuality and experience of rape victims

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 85-103

  Doherty, Kathy ^a   Anderson, Irina ^b  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounts; Conversation; Discourse analysis; Gender; Hegemonic masculinity; Male rape; Phallocentric heterosexuality

Indexed keywords

EID: 8844279691     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.765     Document Type: Article

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