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Sexed Work 'Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market' (CSC) (Clarendon Studies in Criminology)by Lisa Maher
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review: "Maher does a superior job of challenging current conceptions of women's position and behavior in the street-level drug economy....an excellent examination of an often misunderstood and overlooked group and is informative for people from many disciplines."--Choice
Synopsis:This title is a detailed account of the economic lives of women drug users. It is located at the boundaries of three disciplines - criminology, anthropology, and sociology - and based on three years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in New York City. It reveals the economic lives of a group of women whose options have been severely circumscribed. Synopsis: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. Table of Contents 1. Readings of Victimization and Volition 2. Taking it on the Street 3. Gender, Work, and Informalization 4. A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market 5. Jobs for the Boyz: Street Hustles 6. A Hard Road to Home: Sexwork 7. Intersectionalities: Gender, Race and Class 8. The Reproduction of Inequalities Appendix: On Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Ethnographic Research What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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