"The game turns on you": Crack, sex, gender, and power in small-town Ohio

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 384-408

  Draus, Paul J ^a   Carlson, Robert G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEARBORN   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bourdieu; Crack cocaine; Fields; Sex

Indexed keywords

EID: 65749115235     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: 15525414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241608330332     Document Type: Article

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