Rescaling transnational "queerdom": Lesbian and "lesbian" identitary-positionalities in Delhi in the 1980s

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Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 947-973

  Bacchetta, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; DELHI; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

LESBIA;

EID: 2342655612     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8330.00284     Document Type: Review

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