Performativity, Transsexualism, and Benevolent Psychopathology Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on Postmodernist Views of Sexuality

Psychoanalytic Dialogues

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 505-530

  McCarroll, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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EID: 0033412728     PISSN: 10481885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10481889909539340     Document Type: Article

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