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Zusatztext "A New addition to the Clarendon Studies in Criminology, Lisa Maher's 'Sexed Work' provides a much-needed feminist contribution to this prestigious series...Maher's book is truly original. While this study is a specific one, of a historically bounded period, in the particular urban context of Brooklyn, it contains many points of interest for scholars working in fields unrelated to drug use. This book represents a significant contribution to criminology scholarship, which should be considered as a model for future feminist research." Informationen zum Autor Lisa Maher is a Research Fellow of the Australian Drug Research Foundation at the University of New South Wales. The manuscript is based on her Rutgers University thesis which she completed in 1995. Klappentext Based on three years of ethnographic work in New York City, this book provides the first detailed account of the economic lives of women drug users. Set in a neighborhood plagued with AIDS, Sexed Work 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. Maher draws extensively on the women's own words to describe how structures and relations of gender, race and class are articulated by divisions of labor in the street-level drug economy. This rich, nuanced and theoretically sophisticated study of "crime as work" will be compelling reading for all those interested in the way in which women deal with the intersection of gender, race, and work. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Readings of Victimization and Volition 2: Taking it on the Street 3: Gender, Work, and Informalization 4: A Reserve Army: Women and the Drug Market 5: Jobs for the Boyz: Street Hustles 6: A Hard Road to Ho: Sexwork 7: Intersectionalities: Gender, Race and Class 8: The Reproduction of Inequalities Appendix: On Reflexivity, Reciprocity, and Ethnographic Research ...
