UID:
almafu_9959391785602883
Format:
1 online resource (244 p.)
ISBN:
9780813544632
Series Statement:
Critical Issues in Crime and Society
Content:
Female drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. These depictions typify the "pathology and powerlessness" narrative that has historically characterized popular and academic conversations about female substance abusers. Neither Villain Nor Victim attempts to correct these polarizing perspectives by presenting a critical feminist analysis of the drug world. By shifting the discussion to one centered on women's agency and empowerment, this book reveals the complex experiences and social relationships of women addicts. Essays explore a range of topics, including the many ways that women negotiate the illicit drug world, how former drug addicts manage the more intimate aspects of their lives as they try to achieve abstinence, how women tend to use intervention resources more positively than their male counterparts, and how society can improve its response to female substance abusers by moving away from social controls (such as the criminalization of prostitution) and rehabilitative programs that have been shown to fail women in the long term. Advancing important new perspectives about the position of women in the drug world, this book is essential reading in courses on women and crime, feminist theory, and criminal justice.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Foreword --
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Introduction --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. Dimensions of Women’s Power in the Illicit Drug Economy --
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Chapter 2. Seeing Women, Power, and Drugs through the Lens of Embodiment --
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Chapter 3. Demonstrating a Female-Specific Agency and Empowerment in Drug Selling --
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Chapter 4. Negotiating the Streets --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 5. Women’s Agency in the Context of Drug Use --
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Chapter 6. Facilitating Change for Women? --
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Chapter 7. Negotiating Gender for Couples in Methadone Maintenance Treatment --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 8. A Spoonful of Sugar? Treating Women in Prison --
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Chapter 9. More of a Danger to Myself --
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Chapter 10. “Hustling” to Save Women’s Lives --
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Chapter 11. Drug Use, Prostitution, and Globalization --
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Epilogue --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.36019/9780813544632
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813544632
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813544632
