“I went to bed with my own kind once”: The erasure of desire in the name of identity

The Transgender Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 407-419

  Valentine, David ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203955055-38     Document Type: Chapter

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