Sexed work : gender, race, and resistance in a Brooklyn drug market / Lisa Maher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maher, Lisa.

Series:

Clarendon studies in criminology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Drug use--New York (State)--New York.

Minority women.

Women--Drug use--New York (State)--New York.

Women.

Women--Drug use.

Drug abuse.

Social conditions.

Economic conditions.

New York (State)--New York.

Women--New York (State)--New York--Economic conditions.

Women--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions.

Drug abuse--New York (State)--New York.

New York (State).

Physical Description:

xiii, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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 women's own words to describe how structures and relations of gender, race and class are articulated by divisions of labor in the street-level drug economy. This rich, nuanced and theoretically sophisticated study of "crime as work" will be compelling reading for all those interested in the way in which women deal with the intersection of gender, race, and work.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.--Rutgers Univ.), 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-265) and index.

ISBN:

019826495X

OCLC:

43541127