Gender and sexuality in the field: A female ethnographer's experience researching drug use in dance clubs

Substance Use and Misuse

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 717-735

  Perrone, Dina ^a  

^a BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Club drugs; Danceclub culture; Drug use; Ethnography; Field relations; Fieldwork; Gaining access; Gender; Heterosexual; Impression management; Participant observations; Qualitative research; Researcher safety; Sexualized

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DANCING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; DANCING; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949437193     PISSN: 10826084     EISSN: 15322491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10826081003595127     Document Type: Article

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