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Women drug traffickers : mules, bosses, and organized crime
Author
Title
Women drug traffickers : mules, bosses, and organized crime / Elaine Carey.
ISBN
9780826351982 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0826351980 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826351999 (electronic)
Edition
First Edition.
Publication
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xiii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 01, 2014
Series
Diálogos series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction : selling is more of a habit : women and drug trafficking, 1900-1980
Foreign vices : drugs, modernity, and gender
Mules, smugglers, and peddlers : the illicit trade in Mexico, 1910s-1930s
The white lady of Mexico City : lola la chata and the remaking of narcotics
Transcending borders : la nacha and the "notorious" women of the north
The women who made it snow : cold, dirty, drug wars, 1970s
Conclusion gangsters, narcs, and women : a secret history
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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