From Witches to Crack Moms

Women, Drug Law, and Policy

in English, 392 pages,
Carolina Academic Press, January 01, 2004
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This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the impact drug law and policy have on women in the U.S. compared with women in Britain and Canada. In order to illuminate the connections between the regulation of illegal drug use in Western liberal states and non-Western states, the drug war’s impact on women and indigenous peoples in Colombia is also addressed. The book includes a chapter on the “Medical, Legal, and Moral Regulation of Women” that looks at pregnancy and drug use, including the criminalization of pregnancy.