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Research Article

Intimate partner violence as masculine accomplishment: resistance to victimhood in accounts of violence by gay men in urban South Africa

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Pages 663-675 | Received 11 Dec 2019, Accepted 09 Mar 2021, Published online: 04 Apr 2021

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