Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography

2000/01/01 by Judith Halberstam · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Short Stories in Global Literature #Canadian Identity and History #Autobiographical and Biographical Writing #Biography #Transgender #Literature #Art #History #Sociology #Gender studies

paper · doi:10.1080/08989575.2000.10815235

openalex publication_date 2000/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03

Abstract

(2000). Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 62-81.

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