Gender's nature: Intersexuality, transsexualism and the ‘sex’/’gender’ binary

Feminist Theory

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 347-364

  Hird, Myra J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mutiple genders; nature; queer; sexual difference; transgenderism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993812329     PISSN: 14647001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146470010000100305     Document Type: Article

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