Introduction Myths and ideologies A feminist sociological perspective Social control Social construction and feminist research Sexuality, the family, and mothering 1. Women and illegal and legal drugs Drugs : what are they? A brief history of drug regulation and women Witch hunts The gin craze Colonization and the regulation of altered states of consciousness The regulation of coca Western drug use : women's use of opiate remedies Marijuana and cocaine use Women's drug use : a personal matter Temperance ideology Ideological overlap between the anti-opiate and prohibition movement Contemporary drug regulation Drug regulation since the 1950s Legal drugs : tobacco, alcohol, and prescribed drugs Tobacco Alcohol Prescribed drugs Feminist research SSRI prescribing and the disciplinary society The legal/illegal divide Advertising and profit Resistance Contemporary drug use rates Canadian drug trends British drug trends The diversity of drug use 2. The medical, legal, and moral regulation of women The regulation of reproduction Medicalization A social model of health Pregnancy and drugs Maternal drug use and infant doping : a historical perspective Identifying pregnant women who use drugs and drug testing Neonatal abstinence syndrome Cocaine and pregnancy Narcotics and pregnancy Tobacco and pregnancy Alcohol use and pregnancy Marijuana and cultural factors Risk categories The criminalization of pregnancy : maternal-state conflicts Civil child welfare law Nongovernment initiatives Alternative maternity services Glasgow Liverpool Manchester Resistance in the U.S. Conclusion 3. Welfare regulation of women Welfare regulation Fitness to parent Welfare reform in the U.S. Women regulating women Women, welfare, and illegal drugs in the U.S. Section 15 HUD housing Welfare in Canada Sunny Hill Hospital Apprehension of the fetus Welfare and illegal drug use in Britain Conclusion
4. A sociological perspective of drug use and treatment
Feminism and drug treatment
Women's experience of treatment in North America
The drug treatment industry and diversity
Alternative-treatment options
History of the drug courts
Cost effectiveness of drug courts
Gender and cultural factors
Widening the net of social control
Coerced-treatment replaces voluntary-treatment options
5. Women in conflict with the law
Arrest rates and imprisonment of women in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.
Women, prostitution, and drug dealing
Gendered drug law in the U.S.
Drug conspiracy and drug couriers
Asset seizures and the impact on women
Prison and the regulation of women
The emergence of the prison
The war on drugs and the restructuring of prisons
Health care and legal drugging
Pregnancy and the use of restraints
Tearing apart the family and community, and visiting prisons
6. U.S. international policy and the war in Colombia
U.S. and CIA intervention and international drug policy
United States federal drug policy
The civil war in Colombia
The displacement of indigenous peoples
Women's resistance to violence in Colombia
Further justification for foreign intervention
7. Road to social justice
