Researching across invisible borders: Young punk women speak about their environmental experiences while living on their own.
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Title
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Researching across invisible borders: Young punk women speak about their environmental experiences while living on their own.
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Identifier
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AAI9432370
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identifier
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9432370
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Creator
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Pfeffer, Rachel.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Maxine Wolfe
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Date
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1994
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Women's Studies | Psychology, General | Sociology, Theory and Methods
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Abstract
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This study investigates the environmental experiences of 10 Punk identified young women who are living-on-their own in San Francisco (Punks are one of many youth subcultures and there are many types of Punks). Multiple factors, including, gender, age, race, class, sexual orientation and historical views of young women across disciplines embed our understanding of their experiences. Unraveling this complex social construction shines light on the underlying reasons for the lack of research completed about this population as well as the methodological and epistemological problems faced by social scientists, policy makers and social service providers. The social production of space has important implications for understanding homelessness, runaways, youth at risk and spatial filtering in urban areas. The environmental negotiations made by young women on-their-own are in part resistance to the dominant moralistic views about young women and an assertion of their youth culture, which provides the only support available to them.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
