Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System

Gender and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 32-57

  Westbrook, Laurel ^a   Schilt, Kristen ^b  

^a GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

doing gender; gender; heteronormativity; sexuality; sports; transgender

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892545769     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243213503203     Document Type: Article

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