Neither Villain nor Victim : : Empowerment and Agency among Women Substance Abusers / / ed. by Tammy Anderson.

Female drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. These depictions typify the "pathology and powerlessness" narrative that has historically characterized popular and academic conversations about female substa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2008]
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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