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Neither villain nor victim [electronic resource] : empowerment and agency among women substance abusers / edited by Tammy L. Anderson.

Contributor(s): Anderson, Tammy L, 1963- | ebrary, Inc.

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BookSeries: Critical issues in crime and society: Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008Description: xv, 226 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Women drug addicts | Female offenders -- Drug use | Women prisoners -- Drug use | Female offenders -- Rehabilitation | Women prisoners -- Rehabilitation | Drug abuse -- Prevention | Drug abuse -- TreatmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 362.29082 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Contents:

Dimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson -- Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre -- Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / R. Baskin and Ira Sommers -- Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in street-life social networks / Christopher W. Mullins -- Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim M. Blankenship -- Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray -- Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley -- A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret S. Malloch -- More of a danger to myself : community reentry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie W. Hartwell -- "Hustling" to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger -- Drug use, prostitution, and globalization : a modest proposal for rethinking policy / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel.

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