Constructing transsexuality: Discursive manoeuvres through psycho-medical, transgender, and queer texts
Transsexuality is understood variously as a psycho-medical phenomenon, as an identity category, and as a postmodern challenge to notions of gender and identity. As transsexuality is discursively constituted through each of these frames of reference, different assertions are made about what transsexu...
Main Author: | Roen, Katrina |
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Language: | en |
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University of Canterbury. Feminist Studies
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4636 |
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