Global Female Homelessness: A Multi-Faceted Problem

Gender Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 147-156

  Sikich, Keri Weber ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Definition of homelessness; Female homelessness; Homelessness

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849127069     PISSN: 1098092X     EISSN: 19364717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12147-008-9062-8     Document Type: Article

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