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Book Review: Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. By Jay Prosser. Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 270 pp., $21.95

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Elliot, P. Book Review: Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality. By Jay Prosser. Columbia University Press, New York, 1998, 270 pp., $21.95. Arch Sex Behav 29, 397–400 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1001974622090

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