Negotiating the Constraints of Gender Binarism: Intersexuals' Challenge to Gender Categorization

Current Sociology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 27-50

  Preves, Sharon Elaine ^a  

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EID: 84993705090     PISSN: 00113921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011392100048003004     Document Type: Article

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