Neither villain nor victim
Subtitle: empowerment and agency among women substance abusers
By: edited by Tammy L. Anderson.
Contributors: Anderson, Tammy L.
Series: Critical issues in crime and society
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813542089; 9780813542096
Subjects: Women drug addicts; Female offenders -- Drug use; Women prisoners -- Drug use; Female offenders -- Rehabilitation; Women prisoners -- Rehabilitation; Drug abuse -- Prevention; Drug abuse -- Treatment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson; title: Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre; title: Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / Deborah Baskin and Ira Sommers; title: Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in streetlife social networks / Christopher Mullins; title: Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim Blankenship; title: Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray; title: Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley; title: A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret Malloch; title: More of a danger to myself : community re-entry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie Hartwell; title: Hustling to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger; title: Sex work and drug use : an argument for policy change / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel.