Fast lives : women who use crack cocaine / Claire E. Sterk.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterk, Claire E., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Drug use--United States.

Women.

Crack (Drug)--United States.

Crack (Drug).

Women--United States--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234 and index.

ISBN:

9781299850576

129985057X

9780585370187

0585370184

9781592138074

1592138071

OCLC:

243615893