Fe/male trouble: The unsettling place of lesbians in the self-images of Brazilian travesti prostitutes

Sexualities

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 299-312

  Kulick, Don ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brazil; Homosexuality; Lesbian; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009400786     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346098001003005     Document Type: Article

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