Cross-Cultural Issues

Handbook of Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 457-485

  Nanda, Serena ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural alternatives; Hermaphrodites; Multiple identities; Sex gender system; Transgenderism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956931544     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118269978.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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