Neither villain nor victim [[electronic resource] ] : empowerment and agency among women substance abusers / / edited by Tammy L. Anderson

• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.29082
• Soggetto topico: Women drug addicts; Female offenders - Drug use; Women prisoners - Drug use; Female offenders - Rehabilitation; Women prisoners - Rehabilitation; Drug abuse - Prevention; Drug abuse - Treatment
• Altri autori: AndersonTammy L. <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Dimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson -- Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre -- Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / R. Baskin and Ira Sommers -- Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in street-life social networks / Christopher W. Mullins -- Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim M. Blankenship -- Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray -- Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley -- A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret S. Malloch -- More of a danger to myself : community reentry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie W. Hartwell -- "Hustling" to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger -- Drug use, prostitution, and globalization : a modest proposal for rethinking policy / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Neither villain nor victim
• ISBN: 1-281-39719-9; 9786611397197; 0-8135-4463-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782293603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical issues in crime and society.