Intersecting identities of gender-transgressive sexual minorities: Toward a new paradigm of affirmative psychology

Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 177-207

  Bieschke, Kathleen J ^a   Hardy, Jennifer A ^a   Fassinger, Ruth E ^b   Croteau, James M ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84908941821     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203927519     Document Type: Chapter

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