By Claire M. Renzetti, Tammy L. Anderson
Woman drug addicts are usually stereotyped both as promiscuous, lazy, and egocentric, or as susceptible, scared, and trapped into habit. those depictions typify the "pathology and powerlessness" narrative that has traditionally characterised renowned and educational conversations approximately woman substance abusers. Neither Villain Nor sufferer makes an attempt to right those polarizing views by means of offering a severe feminist research of the drug international. via moving the dialogue to 1 headquartered on women's enterprise and empowerment, this booklet finds the complicated reviews and social relationships of ladies addicts. Essays discover various themes, together with the numerous ways in which girls negotiate the illicit drug international, how former drug addicts deal with the extra intimate elements in their lives as they struggle to accomplish abstinence, how ladies are likely to use intervention assets extra certainly than their male opposite numbers, and the way society can increase its reaction to girl substance abusers by way of relocating clear of social controls (such because the criminalization of prostitution) and rehabilitative courses which were proven to fail ladies within the long-term. Advancing vital new views in regards to the place of girls in the drug international, this publication is vital analyzing in classes on girls and crime, feminist conception, and felony justice.
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2004. “Older injecting drug users’ careers,” forthcoming in Addiction Theory and Research. Lovell, Anne M. 2002. “Risking the risk: The influence of types of capital and social networks on the injection practices of drug users,” Social Science and Medicine 55: 803–821. Maher, Lisa. 1996. “Hidden in the light: Occupational norms among crack-using, streetlevel sex workers,” Journal of Drug Issues 26, no. 1: 143–173. ———. 1997. Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market. London: Oxford University Press.
This paper uses the term empowerment to describe feelings and perceptions of ability and competence, whereas agency is used to defi ne action. Taken together, the terms allow for a broader conception of power, one that is seldom employed in drugs and crime research. 3. The value of women’s provision of a stable residence to the drug trade and to the criminal success of its actors was discussed by Wilson (1993) and raised again by Maher (1997). ” Wilson argued that women’s control of the household contributed to their criminal involvement, enabling them to reach parity with men.
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