Mad Men,Meth Moms,Moral Panic: Gendering Meth Crimes in the Midwest |
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Authors: | Linnemann Travis |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters Hall, Manhattan, KS 66502, USA |
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Abstract: | This research examines the content of a sample of newspaper articles from the Midwestern states. The analyses find highly gendered accounts of methamphetamine related crimes. Media depictions suggest women use meth for reasons drawn from conventional notions of motherhood, sexuality, and subordination. Alternately, motives of men appear constructed around dominant notions of male criminal virility and the viability of the drug trade. The findings offer a contextual framework to consider how this sort of mediated dichotomy emerges from and reinforces popular notions of gendered crime and drug users in non-urban spaces. |
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