Romancing the transgender native: Rethinking the use of the "third gender" concept

The Transgender Studies Reader

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 666-684

  Towle, Evan B ^a   Morgan, Lynn M ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203955055-61     Document Type: Chapter

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