Transsexualism: Reflections on the Persistence of Gender and the Mutability of Sex

Same-Sex Cultures and Sexualities: An Anthropological Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 138-161

  Shapiro, Judith ^a  

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Author keywords

Gender differences; Gender systems; Mutability of sex; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857868072     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470775981.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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