We Who Are Sexy: Christine Jorgensen's transsexual whiteness in the postcolonial Philippines

Social Semiotics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-91

  Stryker, Susan ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agamben; Bakla; Christine jorgensen; Film; Foucault; Philippines; Postcolonial; Somatechnics; Talyada; Transgender; Transsexual; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950728483     PISSN: 10350330     EISSN: 14701219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10350330802655551     Document Type: Article

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