'I went to bed with my own kind once': The erasure of desire in the name of identity

Language and Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 123-138

  Valentine, David ^a  

^a SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Desire; Gender; Identity; Politics; Sexuality; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037239401     PISSN: 02715309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5309(02)00045-9     Document Type: Article

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