Queering gender: studying gender identity in ‘normative’ individuals

Psychology and Sexuality

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 291-321

  Joel, Daphna ^a   Tarrasch, Ricardo ^a   Berman, Zohar ^a   Mukamel, Maya ^b   Ziv, Effi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

gender dysphoria; gender identity; performance; queer; sexual orientation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912047303     PISSN: 19419899     EISSN: 19419902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2013.830640     Document Type: Article

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