A rose is a rose: On producing legal gender classifications

Gender and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 814-837

  Meadow, Tey ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

classifications; courts; gender; law; theory; transgender; transsexual

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649779427     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243210385918     Document Type: Article

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