Make me feel mighty real: Gay female-to-male transgenderists negotiating sex, gender, and sexuality

Sexualities

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-75

  Schleifer, David ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desire; Female to male; Gender; Materiality; Transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646227210     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460706058397     Document Type: Article

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