'Safe space' as counter-space: Women, environmental illness and 'corporeal chaos'

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-75

  Coyle, Fiona ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENDER DISPARITY; TOXICITY; WOMENS HEALTH;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 1642633210     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1085-9489.2004.01e08.x     Document Type: Article

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