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

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

Maher, Lisa

Hardcover

Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology

CriminologyGeneral United States HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 019826495X
ISBN13: 9780198264958
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Nov 6 1997
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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