Female drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. This title presents a critical feminist analysis of the drug world. By shifting the discussion to one centered on women's agency and empowerment, it reveals the experiences and social relationships of women addicts.

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

Tammy Anderson is an associate professor in the University of Delaware's department of sociology and criminal justice.