Dehumanizing Discourse, Anti-Drug Law, and Policy in America: A "Crack Mother'S" Nightmare (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations)

The problem of drug use by pregnant women has been widely discussed and both social policy and legislation have been created in an attempt to deal with it. Using a black feminist analysis, this probing volume challenges these policies and laws, as well as much of the discussion, by examining the significant sexist, racist and class-based ideologies which underlie them.