'You've gotta learn how to play the game': Homeless women's use of gender performance as a tool for preventing victimization

Sociological Review

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-194

  Huey, Laura ^a   Berndt, Eric ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science

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EID: 42449136548     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2008.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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