'Deep down where the music plays': How parents account for childhood gender variance

Sexualities

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 725-747

  Meadow, Tey ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

children; gender; knowledge; parents; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857771524     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460711420463     Document Type: Article

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