Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market

ISBN-13: 9780198264958 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 296 str.

Lisa Maher

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"A New addition to the Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Lisa Maher's 'Sexed Work' provides a much-needed feminist contribution to this prestigious series...Maher's book is truly original. While this study is a specific one, of a historically bounded period, in the particular urban context of Brooklyn, it contains many points of interest for scholars working in fields unrelated to drug use. This book represents a significant contribution to criminology scholarship, which should be considered as a model for future feminist research."

O autorze

Lisa Maher is a Research Fellow of the Australian Drug Research Foundation at the University of New South Wales. The manuscript is based on her Rutgers University thesis which she completed in 1995.