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Contents
List of Figures and Tables
About the Contributors
Introduction
Julia Buxton, Lona Lauridsen Burger and Giavana Margo
Chapter 1International Drug Policy in Context
Julia Buxton and Lona Burger
Chapter 2Gendering Drug Policy
Fiona Macaulay
Chapter 3Women and the Politics of Pleasure in Critical Drug Studies
Ingrid Walker
Chapter 4Fionas Story
Fiona Gilbertson
Health, Care and Treatment: Stigma, Gaps and Vulnerabilities
Chapter 5Nexus of Risk: The Co-occurring Problems of Gender-based Violence, HIV and Drug Use Among Women and Adolescent Girls
Claudia Stoicescu, Ariel Richer and Louisa Gilbert
Chapter 6Risk Behaviours Among Older Women Who Use Drugs
April Shaw
Chapter 7Women Who Use Drugs and Mental Health
Zsuzsa Kal
Chapter 8Access Barriers to Health Services for Women Who Use Drugs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Daria Matyushina-Ocheret
Chapter 9Suzannes Story
Suzanne Sharkey
Chapter 10Sex Work, Justice and Decriminalisation: Beyond a Politics of Recognition in Promoting a Social Justice Response to Women at the Margins
Anastacia Ryan
Criminal Justice, Injustice and Criminality
Chapter 11Women Incarcerated for Drug-related Offences: A Latin American Perspective
Corina Giacomello and Coletta A. Youngers
Chapter 12Policing and Sentencing Practices in Russia and their Impacts on Women Who Use Drugs
Giavana Margo
Chapter 13Women, Drug Policy and the Kenyan Prison System
Mary C. K. Chepkonga
Chapter 14Drug Policy and Women Prisoners in Southeast Asia
Chontit Chuenurah and Ukrit Sornprohm
Chapter 15The Increase in Women Who Use Drugs in Zimbabwe
Wilson Box
Chapter 16Women as Actors in the Drug Economy
Julia Buxton
Chapter 17Womens Involvement in Organised Crime and Drug Trafficking: A Comparative Analysis of the Sinaloa and Yamaguchi-gumi Organisations
Cecilia Farfn Mndez
Chapter 18From the Colombian Coca Fields: Peasant Women Amid the War on Drugs
Isabel Pereira and Luca Ramrez
Chapter 19Las Empoderadas Women Coca Growers Building Territorial Peace
Ingrid Marcela Muoz Quesada
Chapter 20Unseen and Unheard: The Women in Dutertes War on Drugs
Kristine Mendoza
Best Practice, Mobilisation and Reform Agendas: Towards Narco Feminism
Chapter 21Happys Story
Happy Assan
Chapter 22Women Surviving the Overdose Crisis in New York City: A Glimpse into the Unique Overdose Risks and Prevention Strategies for Pregnant Women
Bethany Medley
Chapter 23Patterns of Recreational Drug Use and Harm Reduction Strategies among Women at Music Festivals: The Case of Hungary and Poland
Iga Kender-Jeziorska
Chapter 24Queer Feminine Identities and the War on Drugs
Ailish Brennan
Chapter 25Best Practices in Reaching Hidden Populations and Harm Reduction Service Provision
Fatma Jeneby, Abdalla Badrus, Husein Abdalla Taib, Aggrey Alluso, Luke Okunya Odiemo and Habil Otanga
Chapter 26A Mothers Story
Rose
Chapter 27Drug Users as Stakeholders in Drug Policy: Questions of Legitimacy and the Silencing of the Happy Drug User
Anna Ross
Chapter 28Improving Drug Policy Metrics and Advancements in Measuring Gender-based Drug Policy Outcomes
Marie Nougier
Shifting the Needle: A Gendered Perspective on the Impacts of Global Drug Policy Enforcement
Chapter 29Towards an Abolitionist Drug Policy Reform
Imani Robinson
Chapter 30Women Who Use Drugs: Resistance and Rebellion
Judy Chang
References
Index