Neither Villain nor Victim Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers

Name: Neither Villain nor Victim Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers
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ISBN: 9780813542096

ISBN-10: 081354209X

ISBN-13: 9780813542096

Edition: 2008

Authors: Tammy Anderson, Elizabeth Ettore, Christopher Mullins, Ira Sommers, Deborah Baskin

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Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 1/22/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Introduction




Empowered Negotiation of the Illicit Drug Economy



Dimensions of Women's Power in the Illicit Drug Economy




Seeing Women, Power, and Drugs through the Lens of Embodiment




Demonstrating a Female-Specific Agency and Empowerment in Drug Selling




Negotiating the Streets: Women, Power, and Resistance in Street-Life Social Networks




Exercising Agency in Managing Drug Dependencies



Women's Agency in the Context of Drug Use




Facilitating Change for Women? Exploring the Role of Therapeutic Jurisprudence in Drug Court




Negotiating Gender for Couples in Methadone Maintenance Treatment




Improved Responses to Drug-Related Problems



A Spoonful of Sugar? Treating Women in Prison




More of a Danger to Myself: Community Reentry of Dually Diagnosed Females Involved with the Criminal Justice System




"Hustling" to Save Women's Lives: Empowerment Strategies of Recovering HIV-Positive Women




Drug Use, Prostitution, and Globalization: A Modest Proposal for Rethinking Policy



Epilogue



Notes on Contributors


Index