Love me gender: Normative homosexuality and “ex-gay” performativity in reparative therapy narratives

Text and Performance Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 331-352

  Bennett, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Judith Butler; Narrative; Performativity; Queer theory; Reparative therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845785036     PISSN: 10462937     EISSN: 14795760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1046293042000190603     Document Type: Article

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