Taming Space: Drug use, HIV, and homemaking in Downtown Eastside Vancouver

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 527-549

  Robertson, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

'Skid row'; Aboriginal women; Drug use; Home; Housing; Narrative; Poverty; Stigma; Street sociality; Turning points

Indexed keywords

DRUGS TRADE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MOBILITY; SERVICE PROVISION; WOMENS HEALTH; WOMENS STATUS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 34648840228     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663690701562198     Document Type: Article

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