The Toronto Women's Bathhouse raid: Querying queer identities in the courtroom

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Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-34

  Bain, Alison L ^a   Nash, Catherine J ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITIZENSHIP; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; NATIONALISM; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WOMENS ORGANIZATION;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 34247590970     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2007.00504.x     Document Type: Article

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