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Author:

Sharpe, Tanya Telfair.

Title:

Behind the eight ball : sex for crack cocaine exchange and poor black women / Tanya Telfair Sharpe.

Publisher:

Haworth Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xv, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Drug use.
Poor women--Drug use--United States.
Drug addicts--Sexual behavior--United States.
Drugs and sex--United States.
Crack (Drug)--United States.
Children of prenatal substance abuse--United States.
Cocaine-Related Disorders--ethnology--United States.
Crack Cocaine--United States.
African Americans--United States.
Poverty--United States.
Sexual Behavior--ethnology--United States.
Social problems--United States.
Women--United States.
Seks.
Cocaïne.
Negers.
Vrouwen.
7.150.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The social and economic precursors of crack use in inner cities -- Bearing the legacy of social change: a theory of gender roles among the inner-city poor -- The crack culture and its roles: the complexities of crack prostitution -- A picture of the women -- Lives of women who exchange sex for crack -- Exchanging sex for crack and sexual risk taking -- Sex-for-crack pregnancies -- Sex-for-crack children -- Discussion, conclusions, and policy suggestions -- Method notes.

ISBN:

9780789024572
9780789024565
9780789024572 (soft : alk. paper)
0789024578 (soft : alk. paper)
9780789024565 (hard : alk. paper)
078902456X (hard : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57613566

LCCN:

2005003162

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)