‘Hormones is not magic wands’: Ethnography of a transgender scene in Oakland, California

Ethnography

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-172

  Eyre, Stephen L ^a   de Guzman, Rebecca ^a   Donovan, Amy A ^a   Boissiere, Calvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescence; African American; gender; homosexuality; sexuality; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247672379     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138104044376     Document Type: Article

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