Crossing Borders and Erasing Boundaries: Paradoxes of Identity Politics

Sociological Focus

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 355-370

  Lorber, Judith ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84937188268     PISSN: 00380237     EISSN: 21621128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380237.1999.10571147     Document Type: Article

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