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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender

Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs and Gender

by Meda Chesney-Lind

Female Gangs in America challenges a long tradition of color them male scholarship about gangs in our country by exploring the experience of girls in gangs. Recognizing that girls have long been present but invisible in American gang life, this book offers the first comprehensive collection of essays ever published on this topic. It collects classic early work on gender and gangs by Thrasher, Rice, Quicker,... (more)

Sexed Work 'Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market' (CSC) (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

Sexed Work 'Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market' (CSC) (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)

by Lisa Maher

Based on three years of ethnographic work in New York City, this book provides the first detailed account of the economic lives of women drug users. Set in a neighborhood plagued with AIDS, Sexed Work reveals the economic lives of a group of women whose options have been severely circumscribed, not only by drug use, but also by poverty, racism, violence, and enduring marginality. Maher draws extensively on the... (more)

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS

by Michele Tracy Berger

Workable Sisterhood is an empirical look at sixteen HIV-positive women who have a history of drug use, conflict with the law, or a history of working in the sex trade. What makes their experience with the HIV/AIDS virus and their political participation different from their counterparts of people with HIV? Michele Tracy Berger argues that it is the influence of a phenomenon she labels "intersectional stigma," a... (more)

Street Woman Pb (Women In The Political Economy)

Street Woman Pb (Women In The Political Economy)

by Eleanor M. Miller

In this rich, well-written study, Eleanor Miller analyzes the social organization of street hustling and the lives of the women involved in it. Miller views hustling as "illegal work": prostitution, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and larceny. Using information garnered from life histories and interviews with 64 female street hustlers in Milwaukee, she vividly describes a female underclass recruited to the world of... (more)

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency Among Women Substance Abusers (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Empowerment and Agency Among Women Substance Abusers (Critical Issues in Crime and Society)

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 ... (more)

Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)

Out in the Storm: Drug-Addicted Women Living as Shoplifters and Sex Workers (The Northeastern Series on Gender, Crime, and Law)

by Gail A. Caputo

Based on interview material and life histories that create a vivid narrative, this remarkable volume is the culmination of three years of ethnographic research examining thirty-eight women with drug addictions in the Philadelphia area who took up criminal occupations of shoplifting and sex work. It provides in-depth criminological analysis of drug addiction and female criminality in addition to the sociology of... (more)

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