From Witches to Crack Moms: Women, Drug Law, and Policy
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0890891273 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 392 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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How Little We Have Learned From History Susan C. Boyd's profound research introduces us to draconian and objectionable measures used against women and exposes the social control, impoverishment and detachment of children from their mothers at the hands of the state. Boyd points out and defines mis-information, constructing perceptible format from the seclusion of knowledge and truth through feminism; as it relates to drug policy and prison.Susan Boyd forms a comparison of the witch hunts of th
"Boyd has written a superb feminist analysis of the impact of US and Canadian drug laws on women. Strongly recommended." -- Choice Magazine, January 2005
Boyd closes by stating that social justice, rather than criminal justice, is the goal to work toward. Although the focus of this book is on women's experience of the war on drugs, it also examines how law and policy affect women and men in similar and different ways, and how the regulation of male drug users affects women, families, and communities. Boyd also discusses domestic and international drug policy, exploring how Western imperialism and colonization were accompanied by the condemnation of plants used in spiritual healing by indigenous peoples of North and South America. Also examined is legal and illegal drug use, maternal drug use, and neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), against the backdrop of the regulation of all women. Boyd concludes that today, as the war on drugs advances, women have plenty to fear, but not n