Unknowable bodies, unthinkable sexualities: Lesbian and transgender legal invisibility in the Toronto women's bathhouse raid

Social and Legal Studies

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-130

  Lamble, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Governmentality; Intelligibility; Queer regulation; Visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849133049     PISSN: 09646639     EISSN: 14617390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0964663908100336     Document Type: Article

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