Considerations for a psychoanalytic theory of gender identity and sexual desire: The case of intersex

Signs

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1067-1092

  Hird, Myra J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33746436522     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/343131     Document Type: Review

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