Gender, asthma politics, and urban environmental justice activism

New Perspectives on Environmental Justice: Gender, Sexuality, and Activism

Volumn 9780813542539, Issue , 2004, Pages 177-190

  Sze, Julie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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