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Sexed Work by Lisa Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Lisa Maher

Current price: $183.00
Sexed Work by Lisa Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Sexed Work by Lisa Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Sexed Work by Lisa Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Lisa Maher

Current price: $183.00
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Size: 2.2 x 21.6 x 460

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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 druguse 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 viewwomen 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 drugmarkets. 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. | Sexed Work by Lisa Maher, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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