From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy

by Susan C. Boyd

In this second edition, Susan Boyd examines how the regulation of altered states of consciousness and women's bodies is not new. Like the witches of old, women suspected of using illegal drugs today are persecuted and punished. From Witches to Crack Moms offers a critique of drug law and policy and its impact on women in the United States and illuminates similarities and differences in Britain and Canada. Informed by a feminist sociological perspective,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611636264
• ISBN13: 9781611636260
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 6.0"