'I'm the slice of pie that's ostracised ...'. Foucault's technologies, and personal agency, in the voice of women who are homeless, Adelaide, South Australia

Housing, Theory and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 145-154

  Parker, Stephen ^a   Fopp, Rodney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agency; Foucault; Homelessness; Technologies of domination; Technologies of the self; Voice of the homeless

Indexed keywords

HOMELESSNESS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WOMENS STATUS;

ADELAIDE; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WORLD;

EID: 15044339730     PISSN: 14036096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14036090410011415     Document Type: Article

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