Sexed Work
Gender, Race and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology;
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 24 July 1997
- ISBN 9780198264958
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages296 pages
- Size 224x142x22 mm
- Weight 515 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This is the first 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. Set in a neighbourhood plagued by drug use and AIDS, the book 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. It is a fascinating account, with Maher drawing extensively on the women's own words, describing how structures and relations of gender, race and class, are articulated by divisions of labour in the street-level drug economy. This is a rich, nuanced, and theoretically sophisticated study of "crime as work" which will be compelling reading for all those interested in the ways in which women deal with the intersection of gender, race, and work.
MoreLong description:
This is the first 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. Set in a neighbourhood plagued by drug use and AIDS, the book 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. It is a fascinating account, with Maher drawing extensively on the women's own words, describing how structures and relations of gender, race and class, are articulated by divisions of labour in the street-level drug economy. The book challenges the impoverished set of characterizations which dominate the literature, critiquing both feminist and non-feminist representations that view women lawbreakers as driven by forces beyond their control. It graphically illustrates the role of the drug economy as a site of cultural reproduction by drawing attention to the specific practices by which gender and race dimensions of inequality are constituted and contested in street-level drug markets. This is a rich, nuanced, and theoretically sophisticated study of "crime as work" which will be compelling reading for all those interested in the ways in which women deal with the intersection of gender, race, and work.
This book is far more than a study of women, drugs and the selling of sex. To be sure, it is about the themes of the books subtitle and is as sophisticated an exploration of these and the relevant literature one could wish for. But the book is also a careful and honest ethnography that embraces a good deal more. At a time when good examples of such studies have been so rare, it is a text to also add to reading lists on methodology and gender studies.
Table of Contents:
Readings of Victimization and Volition
Taking it on the Street
Gender, Work, and Informalization
A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market
Jobs for the Boyz: Street Hustles
A Hard Road to Ho: Sexwork
Intersectionalities: Gender, Race and Class
The Reproduction of Inequalities
Appendix: On Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Ethnographic Research
