Fast lives [[electronic resource] ] : women who use crack cocaine / / Claire E. Sterk

• Autore: Sterk Claire E. <1957->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, PA, : Temple University Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29/82/0820973
• Soggetto topico: Women - Drug use - United States; Crack (Drug) - United States; Women - United States - Social conditions
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Getting Into Drugs; 2 Patterns of Income Generation and Drug Use; 3 Significant Others: The Women's Steady Partners; 4 Reproduction and Motherhood; 5 Off and On: Experiences with Drug Treatment; 6 Female Drug Users and the AIDS Epidemic; 7 Violent Encounters; 8 Past Experiences, Future Aspirations and Policies; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Providing insight into drug use from the point of view of female users, this book tells of the complex lives, challenges, and choices of women who use crack cocaine. While popular images of these women present them simply as unreliable individuals, unfit mothers, and women who will do almost anything for crack, Claire Sterk's years of ethnographic research reveal the nature and meaning of crack cocaine use in the larger context of their lives -- including the impact of such issues as gender, class, and race. Focusing on active crack users, Fast Lives compiles information fr
• Titolo autorizzato: Fast lives
• ISBN: 1-299-85057-X; 0-585-37018-4; 1-59213-807-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454604203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II