"If You Let Me Play . . ." : Does high school physical activity reduce urban young adult women's sexual risks?

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 263-280

  Tracy, Allison J ^a   Erkut, Sumru ^a  

^a Wellesley Centers for Women   (United States)

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