Sex/gender identity: Moving beyond fixed and 'natural' categories

Sexualities

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 995-1016

  Carrera, María Victoria ^a   DePalma, Renée ^b   Lameiras, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activism; education; gender identity; heteronormativity; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870185488     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460712459158     Document Type: Article

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