Becoming Women: Transgendered Identities, Psychosexual Therapy and the Challenge of Metamorphosis

Sexualities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 449-464

  May, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

gender; heterobinarism; metamorphosis; therapy; transpeople

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734301     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460702005004004     Document Type: Article

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