Fast lives women who use crack cocaine

Providing insight into drug use from the point of view of female users, this book tells of the complex lives, challenges, and choices of women who use crack cocaine. While popular images of these women present them simply as unreliable individuals, unfit mothers, and women who will do almost anythin...

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Main Author: Sterk, Claire E., 1957- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia, PA : Temple University Press c1999.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary:Providing insight into drug use from the point of view of female users, this book tells of the complex lives, challenges, and choices of women who use crack cocaine. While popular images of these women present them simply as unreliable individuals, unfit mothers, and women who will do almost anything for crack, Claire Sterk's years of ethnographic research reveal the nature and meaning of crack cocaine use in the larger context of their lives -- including the impact of such issues as gender, class, and race. Focusing on active crack users, Fast Lives compiles information fr
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-234 and index.
ISBN:9781299850576
9780585370187
9781592138074