Gender, Sexuality, Power and Drug Acquisition Strategies Among Adolescent Girls Who Use Meth

Autor:	Nancy C. Jurik, Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Vera Lopez
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Social construction of gender media_common.quotation_subject Human sexuality Context (language use) Gender studies Meth Femininity Developmental psychology Gender Studies Power (social and political) chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Reflexivity Agency (sociology) Psychology Law media_common
Zdroj:	Feminist Criminology. 4:226-251
ISSN:	1557-086X 1557-0851
DOI:	10.1177/1557085109332455
Popis:	This study drew on social construction of gender and reflexive methodological approaches to examine how adolescent girls procured meth within the context of relationships with boys and men. A total of 18 incarcerated adolescent girls, aged 14 to 17 years, were interviewed about their meth-using experiences. The findings indicate that girls used five relationship strategies and one nonrelationship strategy to procure meth on the streets. Close examination revealed that girls' meth procurement strategies, with few exceptions, occurred in ways resonant with culturally dominant views of femininity (referred to hereafter as emphasized femininities). However, most girls presented themselves in interviews as breaking out of culturally prescribed constraints and crafting their own version of femininity. However, their agency was contextualized or limited by the social power relations that surrounded them.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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