Creating Knowledge Collaboratively with Female Sex Workers: Insights from a Qualitative, Feminist, and Participatory Study

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 625-642

  Wahab, Stéphanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

agency; dialogue; feminist; participatory inquiry; praxis; sex work

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645561415     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800403252734     Document Type: Article

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