Neither villain nor victim empowerment and agency among women substance abusers (Rutgers University Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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 addi