Using Gender to Undo Gender: A Feminist Degendering Movement

Feminist Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-95

  Lorber, Judith ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

feminism; feminist movements; feminist theory; gender studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993705122     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14647000022229074     Document Type: Article

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